see also:

• https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/chikungunya

• arboviral infection spread by mosquitoes found mostly in West and East Africa, around the Indian Ocean, Asia, and South East Asis including the Pacific Islands
• NOT acquired in Australia - no known cases as of 2025 although the mosquitoes which can transmit it (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus) are present in North Queensland and the Torres Strait