Chikungunya -- Italy
In our Latina province to date, 4 chikungunya cases have been registered, 2 confirmed and 2 probable.
Chikungunya virus disease manifests itself with symptoms similar to influenza, with high fever, chills, headache, etc. and arthralgia, and is transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus _Aedes_, which in our country is represented by the mosquito _Aedes albopictus_, commonly called the tiger mosquito.
Not everyone who encounters an infected mosquito will show the symptoms; in any case, the
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