Which type of mosquitoes spread chicken guinea and malaria?
Chicken Guinea is originally called as Chikungunya, though this is a misnomer as chikungunya has nothing to do with chicken. Chicken Guinea is just an Anglicization of the word Chikungunya. Chikungunya is a viral disease that is very similar in symptoms and etiology to the more popular disease, Dengue fever. The virus responsible for chikungunya is alphavirus, which belongs to the togoviridae family. This virus is transmitted through mosquito bites. Only a specific type of mosquito is a vector, i.e. carrier for chikungunya. This is the “Aedes Aegypti” mosquito, which is active only in the daytime. The Aedes Aegypti mosquito is the same mosquito that is responsible for the transmission of Dengue fever among humans. The word Chikungunya is etymologically rooted in the Makonde language of Tanzania, where it means that which bends up. This name is because of the painful symptoms which cause the patients joints to curve in an upwards position.
