Chikungunya is a re-emerging disease that caused by alphavirus family Togaviridae. Chikungunya also can often caused outbreak in Asia, including Indonesia. Disease characterized by fever accompanied by pain in the joints of the dominant. Chikungunya virus is transmitted by mosquitoes, especially Aedes aegypti, A. Albopictus and Mansoniasp. This study was conducted to identify significant cl…
Chikungunya fever is a vector-borne disease with high morbidity rates it caused socioeconomic impact. On 17 January2014, an outbreak of Chikungunya fever was reported in Batang Toru Sub-district, South Tapanuli District, North Sumatera. The total number of cases were 74 with no fatalities. An analytical study with case control design was undertaken to determine the risk factors of the outbre…
On February 9, 2012 date specified chikungunya outbreak in Salatiga. This study aimed to examine behavioral and environmental risk factors associated with the disease, vector, modes of transmission, treatment seeking, as well as ways to prevent chikungunya on people in the hamlet Sinoman and Rekesan during the chikungunya outbreak in 2012 . This type of research is used case-control study. T…
Chikungunya fever is one of re-emerging diseases in Indonesia. The most prominent symptoms in chikungunya patients are severe pain in joints, especially in the knee, ankles, arms and hands joints , as well as joints of the spine so that the joints very difficult to be moved. The disease is caused by Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) group.Cases of Chiku-ngunya in Central Java were increased, starti…
Pada Januari 2012, Dinas Kesehatan Kota Salatiga telah melaporkan peningkatan kasus chikungunya. Kondisi ini terus berlanjut hingga dinyatakan Kejadian Luar Biasa (KLB) kasus chikungunya pada tanggal 9 Februari 2012 di Kota Salatiga. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan tingkat pengetahuan dan sikap yang mendasari perilaku terkait dengan penyakit chikungunya, vektor, cara penularan, pe…
Chikungunya merupakan penyakit yang disebabkan oleh virus chikungunya atau disingkat CHIK virus merupakan RNA virus yang termasuk dalam genus Alphavirus. Kabupaten Kebumen pada tahun 2012 terjadi KLB chikungunya dengan kasus bulan Januari-Juni 2012 di Desa Karangsari 80 kasus dan di Kelurahan Panjer bulan Mei-Juni sebanyak 33 kasus. Penelitian ini menggambarkan kondisi kasus chikungunya berdasa…