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Director of Health Department says risk will rise in line with global prevalence, but local transmission will remain low with ...
With chikungunya fever cases rising in nearby Guangdong, here’s what Hong Kong needs to know about the symptoms and risks.
Specialists urge government to deploy more monitoring sites and enhance data collection to fight potential outbreaks.
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 ...
Environment secretary Tse Chin-wan said on Wednesday the government may use elephant mosquitoes that prey on the larvae of ...
A man and his daughter who recently travelled to Bangladesh are Hong Kong's latest imported cases of chikungunya ...
It was recently announced that Hong Kong was at risk of an outbreak of chikungunya fever, a mosquito-borne illness that is ...
The Department of Health’s Centre for Health Protection announces that, as of 5pm, one new imported case of chikungunya fever ...
The Department of Health’s Centre for Health Protection announces that two new imported cases of chikungunya fever had been ...
What is chikungunya and how is it spread? Chikungunya virus disease is a mosquito-borne disease that is found across tropical and sub-tropical regions.
What is chikungunya and how is it spread? Chikungunya is a virus transmitted by female mosquitoes, most commonly the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus species. It is passed to humans through bites, ...