Kwayar cutar chikungunya (CHIKV) wata cuta ce ta flavivirus, dangin ƙwayoyin cuta kuma sun haɗa da kwayar cutar dengue, cutar zika, zazzabin rawaya, da dai sauransu. Cututtukan da waɗannan ƙwayoyin cuta ke ɗauka su ne arbovirus, wanda ake kira, saboda waɗannan ƙwayoyin cuta arboviruses ne (gajartawa). na artaron-borne viruses), watau ana daukar su ta hanyar arthropods, kwari masu shan jini kamar sauro.

An fara gano cutar ta CHIKV a lokacin wata annoba a cikin 1952/1953 akan tudun Makondé a Tanzaniya. Sunanta ya fito ne daga wata kalma a cikin yaren Makondé wanda ke nufin “lankwashe”, saboda halin da wasu masu cutar suka ɗauka. CHIKV zai iya zama alhakin cututtukan zazzabi tare da ciwon haɗin gwiwa tun kafin wannan ranar da aka gano ta.  

Bayan Afirka, da Kudu maso Gabashin Asiya, ta mallaki Tekun Indiya a cikin 2004, tare da musamman annoba ta musamman a Réunion a 2005/2006 (mutane 300 da abin ya shafa), sannan nahiyar Amurka (ciki har da Caribbean), Asiya da Oceania. Yanzu haka CHIKV ya kasance a kudancin Turai tun shekara ta 000, ranar da cutar ta barke a arewa maso gabashin Italiya. Tun daga wannan lokacin, an sami labarin wasu bullar cutar a Faransa da Croatia.

Yanzu an yi la'akari da cewa duk ƙasashen da ke da lokacin zafi ko yanayi na iya fuskantar annoba.  

A cikin Satumba 2015, an kiyasta cewa an kafa sauro Aedes albopictus a cikin sassan Faransa 22 a cikin babban yankin Faransa waɗanda aka sanya su ƙarƙashin tsarin sa ido na yanki. Tare da raguwa a cikin shari'o'in da ake shigowa da su, an shigo da kararraki 30 a cikin 2015 fiye da 400 a cikin 2014. A ranar 21 ga Oktoba, 2014, Faransa ta tabbatar da kamuwa da cutar chikungunya guda 4 a cikin gida a Montpellier (Faransa).

Ana ci gaba da barkewar cutar a Martinique da Guyana, kuma cutar tana yaduwa a Guadeloupe.  

Tsibiran Tekun Pasifik suma abin ya shafa kuma cutar chikungunya ta bayyana a shekarar 2015 a tsibirin Cook da tsibirin Marshall.