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Experts say the painful infection, spread to people from mosquitoes, can get to many countries if it finds the right hosts ...
More people have been sickened in China's record-breaking outbreak, officials say, after cases were also detected in Taiwan ...
China is experiencing its largest-ever outbreak of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne disease that causes fever, nausea and severe joint pain. More than 8,000 people have contracted the disease around the ...
China doesn't have access to those vaccines. Instead, health officials there are using other methods to slow the outbreak, such as using drones to spray mosquito repellent and releasing fish into ...
China reports nearly 8000 chikungunya cases in Guangdong Province, with most mild but linked to expanding Aedes mosquito habitats and climate change impacts.
Taiwan has confirmed its first case of chikungunya virus imported from China, where the mosquito-borne illness has surged into what ...
The FDA has removed the recommended pause in the use of Valneva’s chikungunya vaccine Ixchiq in individuals aged 60 years and older.
Health authorities worldwide are on heightened alert, as China is facing a rapid outbreak of the Chikungunya virus, with ...
One focus of Jamaica’s newly-established mutation breeding programme its Blue Mountain coffee, the internationally renowned variety of Arabica coffee; to counter the armful effect of a coffee leaf ...
It was recently announced that Hong Kong was at risk of an outbreak of chikungunya fever, a mosquito-borne illness that is ...
An outbreak of chikungunya disease in southern China has sickened over 8,000 people in just a few weeks. As NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports, health officials there are combating the mosquitoes that ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning travelers about a new virus in China called chikungunya. In ...