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According to the latest guidance from China's top disease control authority, Guangxi, Zhejiang, and three other provinces ...
Thousands of cases of the chikungunya virus, which sickens people bitten by an infected mosquito, have broken out in China ...
The National Disease Control and Prevention Administration has issued the "technical guidelines for chikungunya fever prevention and control" (2025 Edition), listing South China's Guangxi Zhuang ...
Hong Kong has recorded six imported cases since August 2, with a 31-year-old man who returned from Foshan the latest patient.
Good morning. China is pulling out all the stops to control the spread of the chikungunya virus – more on that below, along ...
The virus is transmitted by infected mosquitoes, so China is using giant "compulsive killers", known as elephant mosquitoes, whose larvae "devour" the Aedes mosquito, which passes chikungunya to ...
Environment secretary Tse Chin-wan said on Wednesday the government may use elephant mosquitoes that prey on the larvae of ...
A senior Hong Kong official said on Wednesday that the semi-autonomous regional government may use "elephant mosquitoes," which feed on the larvae of other mosquitoes rather than blood, to control the ...
The recent surge of the mosquito-borne disease led the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issue travel advisory for the affected areas, urging visitors to take preventive measures.
HealthDay News — Health officials in China are reporting more than 8,000 cases of chikungunya, a virus spread by mosquitoes that can cause fever and painful joints.
China has recorded 10,000 cases in an outbreak of a virus that is thought to be the largest of its kind on record in the ...
The Department of Health’s Centre for Health Protection announces that one new imported case of chikungunya fever had been ...