Description
The article focuses on the retrospective cohort study of the outbreak of the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) which causes the encephalitis and the central nervous system (CNS) involvement after a large CHIKV outbreak that occurred on Reunion Island between September 2005 and June 2006. It mentions that CHIKV infection shows the neurological symptoms such as lumbar puncture with a positive cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) and the CHIKV can cause severe neurological disease.