With chikungunya fever cases rising in nearby Guangdong, here’s what Hong Kong needs to know about the symptoms and risks.

If you have fever or acute joint pain, especially after returning to Hong Kong from regions where mosquito-borne diseases are ...

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.

Hong Kong health authorities have recorded two new imported cases of chikungunya fever, involving a 50-year-old male and his ...

Specialists urge government to deploy more monitoring sites and enhance data collection to fight potential outbreaks.

Director of Health Ronald Lam on Sunday said this year is expected to be a peak for chikungunya fever, warning that Hong Kong ...

A man and his daughter who recently travelled to Bangladesh are Hong Kong's latest imported cases of chikungunya ...

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 ...

Cases of the mosquito-borne viral disease chikungunya in southern China have risen to over 7,000, said local press reports. The Guangdong province recorded the cases as of Monday, with most in the ...

Authorities in China are fighting the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus using nets, spraying insecticide, and even deploying drones.

The uptick in cases have prompted measures that are being compared to those taken during the Covid-19 pandemic.