The first report of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in Mexico was in may 2014, in Jalisco, and has disseminated along the country in such a way that now is considered a relevant emergent vector-transmitted infection. It is clinically diagnosed by abrupt onset fever, asthenia, arthralgias, myalgias, headache and rash. In the clinical case, we described a women from Guerrero that had pulmonary symptomatology associated to CHIKV, which is an atypical clinical presentation that has been reported only in a hundred cases worldwide.
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