Chikungunya in Brazil, an Endless Epidemic

This article examines how chikungunya virus disease is epidemiologically and politically invisible in Brazil, unlike other diseases related to the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, such as Zika, dengue, yellow fever. It demonstrates intricacy of identifying presence chikungunya, its effects are generally materialised pain, which difficult measure quantify, thus medical state bureaucracy. As with chronic diseases, transforms identities social relations among those affected. By analysing situation Natal, Northeast considering epidemics social, economic, political narratives well biomedical phenomena, asks might end when it has not even officially started.