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Scientists have made a significant breakthrough by discovering that the chikungunya fever-causing virus has the ability to transmit directly between cells. This advancement holds the potential to contribute to the creation of effective vaccines or remedies for the increasingly prevalent mosquito-borne illness.
These findings, which have been reported in the journal Nature Microbiology, may finally unravel the longstanding enigma surrounding the virus’s ability to evade antibodies present in the bloodstream. This virus, now a prominent health concern, has confounded researchers due to its capacity to elude the immune response.
Lead researcher Margaret Kielian, a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the US, noted that the previous understanding was that the chikungunya virus propagated within an infected cell, produced new viral copies, and then released them into the bloodstream to infect fresh cells.
