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With chikungunya fever cases rising in nearby Guangdong, here’s what Hong Kong needs to know about the symptoms and risks.
Director of Health Department says risk will rise in line with global prevalence, but local transmission will remain low with ...
Chikungunya is a viral disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and there is no treatment available currently in Hong Kong.
If you have fever or acute joint pain, especially after returning to Hong Kong from regions where mosquito-borne diseases are ...
Environment chief says hygiene officers will take action to clear stagnant water, even in places where responsibility for ...
Hong Kong’s health authorities have recorded three more imported cases of the mosquito-borne chikungunya fever, including an ...
Specialists urge government to deploy more monitoring sites and enhance data collection to fight potential outbreaks ...
The Director of Health Ronald Lam on Sunday said the risk of a local outbreak of chikungunya fever remains and he ...
His blood sample tested positive for the chikungunya fever virus upon laboratory testing,” the spokesman said on Friday ...
Environment secretary Tse Chin-wan said on Wednesday the government may use elephant mosquitoes that prey on the larvae of ...
Chikungunya is a disease caused by a virus of the same name. The chikungunya virus was first identified in people sickened ...
Chinese authorities are using nets, spraying insecticide and even deploying drones to fight the mosquito-borne chikungunya ...