The Chikungunya virus, primarily transmitted by female Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, poses a growing global public health challenge due to its debilitating symptoms and rapid spread. Recent outbreaks in Southeast Asia, South America, and Central and East Africa highlight the difficulty of accurately predicting epidemics, given the complex interactions among environmental, climatic, and biological factors. Traditional epidemiological surveillance systems often remain insufficient for early outbreak detection. This study applies advanced machine learning techniques, specifically ensemble regression, to develop predictive models of Chikungunya epidemics in Chad, Brazil, and Paraguay. Random Forest and XGBoost regressors optimized via Grid Search are combined within a Voting Regressor ensemble framework. The ensemble model demonstrated superior […] Read more at https://mjcellpress.com/article/mjmcs03/