Chikungunya fever has emerged in Taiwan with its first case reported, imported from southern China amid a significant outbreak of over 8,000 cases. The outbreak is primarily centered in Foshan, Guangdong province. The CDC has heightened travel advisories regarding this area, urging enhanced precautions for travelers. Symptoms include high fever, rash, headache, and severe joint pain lasting weeks. Limited immunity and favorable breeding conditions for mosquitoes contribute to the outbreak's scale, prompting Chinese health authorities to implement extensive control measures.
The outbreak is the largest on record, according to Roger Hewson, virus surveillance lead at the United Kingdom's Wellcome Sanger Institute.
Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Friday that the chikungunya virus was detected in a Taiwanese woman who had travelled to Foshan.
The CDC has raised its travel advisory for China's Guangdong province, the epicenter of the outbreak, to level 2 out of 3.
The outbreak in Foshan and surrounding areas of Guangdong province has unfolded rapidly and at a scale unprecedented for China.
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