Chikungunya virus, Cryo-electron microscopy reconstruction. Infected patients suffer from sudden onset fever usually lasting two to seven days, and joint pains typically lasting weeks or months but sometimes years. The mortality rate is a little less than 1 in 1000, with the elderly most likely to die. The chikungunya virus is an alphavirus with a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome. Chikungunya is generally spread through bites from A. aegypti mosquitoes. End of Dec 2014, actress Lindsay Lohan got infected with the Chikungunya virus during a vacation in French Polynesia. fulldome animation, created with UCSF chimera and blender, music by guitarz1970 from freesound.org
