Both Chikungunya and Dengue fever are viral infections which are spread by Aedes mosquito.
The viruses are transmitted from one human body to another through biting of infected female mosquitoes.
A mosquito carrying any of these viruses can infect over a dozen people in its lifetime.
Through research it was found that Aedes aegypti spreads dengue and the Aedes albopictus, the chikungunya virus.