Director of Health Dr Ronald Lam highlights notably shorter incubation period in mosquitoes, allowing virus to replicate ...

South China's Guangdong Province has preliminarily brought its Chikungunya fever outbreak under control with 1,387 new cases ...

The sixth Taiwan Plus culture market officially opened for business in Osaka, Japan, yesterday for the first time since its ...

An outbreak of the chikungunya virus in China has prompted authorities to take preventive measures from mosquito nets and clouds of disinfectant, threatening fines for people who fail to disperse ...

Chinese authorities have mobilised their entire health apparatus in a "war on mosquitoes" to eradicate a Chikungunya outbreak ...

GUANGZHOU, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have achieved a breakthrough in preventing mosquito-borne diseases by developing an intelligent vector mosquito surveillance system that offers ...

As China takes measures to fight the Chikungunya virus spreading across the south of the country, accusations of Chinese ...

The Chikungunya virus is transmitted to human through the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. You only get infected when a mosquito with chikungunya bites you. Currently, there is no ...

Local government measures to control spread of the mosquito-borne disease spark pandemic memories for some residents.

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GUANGZHOU, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- New cases of Chikungunya fever in Foshan, a city in south China's Guangdong Province, have continued to decline thanks to a series of targeted prevention measures, ...

China is currently facing what is believed to be the country's largest outbreak of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus.