AFP: US approves first vaccine against chikungunya virus: drug regulator. #health

I never heard of it either. Here you go: https://www.cdc.gov/chikungunya/

Chikungunya virus | CDC

Information on Chikungunya virus. Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

@GottaLaff Trust me. It's no fun!
@PhD9 Oh no. Sorry to hear you got it.

@GottaLaff I didn't have it but my wife did. It hit the Virgin Islands pretty hard in 2014.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5062794/

The First Reported Outbreak of Chikungunya in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 2014–2015

The chikungunya virus (CHIKV) epidemic in the Americas is of significant public health importance due to the lack of effective control and prevention strategies, severe disease morbidity among susceptible populations, and potential for persistent arthralgia ...

PubMed Central (PMC)