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A city in China’s Southern Industrial Center has so far recorded more than 3,100 chikungunya cases, the country’s biggest outbreak of mosquito-borne virus as it first emerged in the mainland about two decades ago.
Foshan City – In Guangdong province north of Hong Kong – first reported an imported chikungunya case in July, Chinese national broadcaster CCTV said, citing briefing from local authorities.
While Chinese health authorities have not yet explained what is behind the outbreak, Guangdong has launched strict-mosquito measures, in which the residents have to clean the stable water and ensure that the drainage channels remain uninterrupted.
The World Health Organization says that Chikungunya, who is known in Tanzania in 1952, has been first sent to humans by infected mosquitoes. The virus causes fever and severe joint pain, and other symptoms may include headaches, muscle pain, vomiting and fatigue.
Outbreaks in Guangdong, often warm and humid regions of southern China, are the latest indication that tropical diseases – from dengue to malaria and zika – are expanding their reach, as climate change allows mosquitoes to live in new areas that have become warm and wet. Increase in international travel and low population immunity is also helping to spread.
Since the onset of 2025, an explosion in cases in the Indian Ocean has created a concern for a spread in other countries, with the WHO issued an immediate call for action this week, the Reuters said. France and Italy, at a distance of thousands of miles from the region, both have found cases of locally acquired chikungunya this year.
Robert Jones, assistant professor at the Department of Disease Control at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said, “The possibility of increasing cases of chikungunya is due to favorable climatic conditions, which allow Aedes mosquito population to bloom.” “These are aggressive, day -cut mosquitoes that thrive in hot, wet conditions.”
Reuters said that more than five billion people are at risk from Chikunungunya in 119 countries, which tell reporters in Geneva. According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, so far this year some 220,000 cases and 80 related deaths have been reported in 14 countries and regions globally.
China registered its first Chikungunya case in 2008, detected an imported infection at an airport in Guangdong. Local transmitted cases first – to infect 253 people – reported in the province after two years. Since then, only sporadic cases have been found in Yunnan and Fujian provinces.
Globally, the possibility of population sensitivity increases in areas where there is no outbreak of chikungunya, Petricia Gallego Delgado said, the Associate Director of London -based Disease Firm Airfinity Limited said.
This wave “population is responsible for the lower level of immunity because individuals in these areas may not have limited or any prior risk to the virus,” he said.
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