CDC Approves Recommendations for Chikungunya Vaccines

The CDC approved the recommendations on May 13.

An Aedes aegypti mosquito on human skin in a lab of the International Training and Medical Research Training Center in Cali, Colombia, on Jan. 25, 2016. Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has accepted an advisory panel’s recommendations on vaccines for chikungunya disease, which is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes.

The recommendations were made by the health agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) during a meeting in April, according to the CDC.