chikungunya was so widespread +committee set up by Delhi government +NEW DELHI: Here's good news for anyone affected by chikungunya this year: the virus is unlikely to infect them ever again. This has been confirmed to TOI by virologists from AIIMS who said that unlike dengue, which can be caused by four serotypes of the virus, the chikungunya virus has only one serotype and hence the risk of repeated infection is minimal. But the experts firmly believed that the higher incidence was due to the large pool of non-immune population. You cannot blame chikungunya for the deaths," averred Dr M C Misra, director, AIIMS.had also refused to attribute the deaths to chikungunya. The panel reviewed the files of 13 patients who had died after suffering from fever and declared none of them caused by chikungunya.

Source: Times of India September 23, 2016 18:53 UTC