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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.
If you have fever or acute joint pain, especially after returning to Hong Kong from regions where mosquito-borne diseases are ...
Chikungunya is a viral disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and there is no treatment available currently in Hong Kong.
Director of Health Department says risk will rise in line with global prevalence, but local transmission will remain low with ...
Hong Kong health authorities have recorded two new imported cases of chikungunya fever, involving a 50-year-old male and his ...
It was recently announced that Hong Kong was at risk of an outbreak of chikungunya fever, a mosquito-borne illness that is ...
Specialists urge government to deploy more monitoring sites and enhance data collection to fight potential outbreaks.
Thousands in southern China have been infected with a mosquito-borne illness in the past few weeks, in what's considered one ...
A man and his daughter who recently travelled to Bangladesh are Hong Kong's latest imported cases of chikungunya ...
Chikungunya virus infections near 50,000, mostly in Latin America, including 90 deaths in 16 countries across the world - ...
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 ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese authorities are using nets, spraying insecticide and even deploying drones to fight the ...