Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) imhando yeflavivirus virus, mhuri yemavhairasi inosanganisirawo dengue virus, the zika virus, yellow fever, etc. Zvirwere zvinotapurirwa nemavhairasi aya maarboviruses, anodaidzwa kudaro, nekuti mavhairasi aya arboviruses (pfupiso ye arthropod-borne utachiwanaes), kureva kuti anotapurirwa neArthropods, tupukanana tunomwa ropa seumhutu.

CHIKV yakatanga kuonekwa panguva yedenda muna 1952/1953 paMakondé Plateau muTanzania. Zita rayo rinobva paizwi mumutauro weMakondé zvinoreva "kukotama", nekuda kwemafungiro ekurerekera mberi akatorwa nevamwe vanhu vane chirwere. CHIKV inogona kunge yakakonzera zvirwere zvefivha nekurwadza kwemajoini kare zuva iri risati razivikanwa.  

Mushure meAfrica, neSouth-East Asia, yakatora Indian Ocean muna 2004, kunyanya denda rakasiyana muRéunion muna 2005/2006 (vanhu mazana matatu vakabatwa), kondinendi yeAmerica (kusanganisira Caribbean), Asia neOceania. CHIKV ikozvino yave iripo kumaodzanyemba kweEurope kubva 300, zuva rekubuda kwechirwere chiri kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumabvazuva kweItaly. Kubva ipapo, kumwe kubuda kwakanyorwa muFrance neCroatia.

Pari zvino zvave kuonekwa kuti nyika dzese dzine mwaka unopisa kana mamiriro ekunze dzingangotarisana nedenda.  

MunaGunyana 2015, zvinofungidzirwa kuti mosquito yeAedes albopictus yakavambwa mumadhipatimendi makumi maviri nemaviri eFrance muFrance iyo inoiswa pasi pedunhu rakasimbiswa rekutarisa system. Nekuderera kwemhosva dzakatengeswa kunze kwenyika, makumi matatu ematambudziko mu22 akatengeswa kune vanopfuura 30 muna 2015. Musi waOctober 400, 2014, France yakasimbisa 21 zviitiko zvechikungunya chirwere chakabatanidzwa munharaunda yeMontpellier (France).

Denda iri rinopfuurira muMartinique neGuyana, uye utachiona hwacho huri kutenderera muGuadeloupe.  

Zvitsuwa zvePacific Ocean zvakakanganiswawo uye nyaya dze chikungunya dzakaonekwa muna 2015 muCook Islands neMarshall Islands.