Chikungunya Virus

Natural Host

The virus is transmitted by infected humans to Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Virus infects during its life cycle arthropod and vertebrate hosts. Viral host belongs to the Domain Eucarya, Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Arthropoda and Chordata, Subphylum Hexapoda; Class Insecta; Subclass Pterygota; Order Diptera.