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🏥 Health authorities are warning travellers of a mosquito-borne virus that can cause debilitating joint pain, after thousands of cases have been reported in a few weeks in 🇨🇳 China.

Almost 8,000 instances of the chikungunya virus have been diagnosed in the country, mostly in Foshan city in Guangdong province. It has prompted authorities to impose forceful measures, including mass quarantines, although the virus is not spread person to person.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has now raised its concern about the virus, giving new guidelines to healthcare providers on how to help those who have contracted chikungunya.

Diana Rojas Alvarez, a medical officer at WHO, told reporters in Geneva that an estimated 5.6 billion people, across 119 countries, are at risk from the virus. This year so far, France has reported 49 cases of chikungunya virus on the mainland and in Corsica. Italy has reported two.

While Europe is not currently experiencing a severe outbreak, health officials on the continent are making travellers aware of the virus as well as the rollout of a new vaccine in the UK.

Here is what travellers need to know about the virus, plus advice from a specialist travel doctor on how to best prepare for travelling overseas.

[color=black]What is Chikungunya and how is it spread?[/color]

Chikungunya virus disease is a mosquito-borne disease that is found across tropical and sub-tropical regions.

It is spread to humans by a bite from an infected mosquito. It cannot be passed from human to human.

Most cases have been found in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Brazil has had the most cases in 2025 (more than 185,000), followed by Bolivia with more than 4,700.

In total, there have been approximately 240,000 chikungunya cases and 90 related deaths across 16 countries or territories since the beginning of the year.

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aftermath of corona virus still fresh in our memory, now another one is out agian from China. it seems china is the headquarters of new virus outbreak.


Chikungunya virus disease is a mosquito-borne disease that is found across tropical and sub-tropical regions.

Shey no be mosquito dey spread am sha? E get why I dey ask.

China again. If they like it should be bacteria+fungi+nematode+algae+parasitic virus put together we African are used to all of them.

China abeg, na God we dey use beg una. The COVID-19 saga is still fresh in our memory. Abeg hold ur chicken abi chickengaya.

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Learnt it is spread to humans by a bite from an infected mosquito. China should pls contain their mosquitoes. We have our own mosquitoes spreading malaria in Africa and we didn't spread it to other continent abeg.

Here we go again!!!

Chinese always in the news for the wrong reasons.

Thank God this one can't be transmitted by human to human contact.

It's not for the children of the redeemed. It will stay with them and never get to our land. Amen. May God be with them.

Is it chifinanya? Or a yam not know how to read again?

Africa will survive. Especially Nigeria, Nigeria is even the capital of Chikungunya sef, make dem go to those slums in Lagos, those ghettos in the East, North, and South-South, dem go see chikungunya wey plenty flying around😂

Chi corn gun ya. Na disease for agbadorians be this na

China don start again oh.

E be like say the people wey dem kill with COVID never dey enough!

China is a country where chronic diseases are developed

Another lock down and vaccine loading!!! I wonder what the Chinese are coming up with this time and what they tend to gain........mmmmhhh!!!;

Somebody was producing GM mosquitoes en mass the other time.
Hope they are not putting payloads on them now?

What is this one again bayii…Make China no com finish us like this.

Chinkogunya …... wetin una dey pound this time

Na china go destroy this world last las.

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Omo.... olor far. Make dem contain am as soon as possible oo we no want another pandemic

Coro senior brother is in town
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They don go invent new one again oo..
What’s with all these their engineering seff

Food don ready for NCDC

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They have started again this 2025
..let nobody in Nigeria or Rivers state in particular confines me to a place n call it "lockdown"!

Mosquitoes no fit kill Nigerians, mosquito no sey naija people blood strong

Chikungunya com sound like Hausa.

God abeg ooooo!

I don't want to experience any lock-down again pls.
Our leaders made lock-down look so agonizing for us, whereas other countries were receiving steady gifts and incentives with detailed information and schedule about the situation.

Anyway, na mosquito, so no problem.

Chinese again. This is even more scary as it's spread by mosquitoes 😨

God help us