Lindsay Lohan was released from a London hospital Wednesday after being treated for the mosquito-transmitted Chikungunya virus, which she said she contracted last month after vacationing in Bora Bora.
Lindsay Lohan is in a London hospital with a rare, incurable virus she apparently picked up in Bora Bora TMZ has learned. We're told Lindsay contracted Chikungunya, a virus transmitted by mosquito bites that causes fever,
The Asian tiger mosquito, a species that carries the chikungunya virus, is likely hitchhiking its way from Panama toward North America inside cars and trucks, according a recent study conducted at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, chikungunya causes symptoms such as fever and joint pain, as well as muscle aches, headache, joint swelling or rash. Joint pain caused by chikungunya can
A seventh case of chikungunya has been reported this season in Dallas County, according to Dallas County Health and Human Services.