In the grip of an important epidemic, China takes out the big means

Since June 16, the province of Guangdong, in southern China, has faced an unprecedented outbreak of Chikungunya. This virus transferable by mosquitoes. causing high fever and intense joint pain has already infected more than 9,933 people on August 17 – the communication of figures being weekly -, mainly in the industrial city of Foshan, but also in the canton megalopolis, about thirty kilometers. On August 15. a case was also detected in Hong Kong, in a 23 -year -old man who had stayed on the continent two weeks earlier.

The monsoon, particularly violent in 2025, caused massive floods between June 25 and July 10 through the region. In Foshan. Canton, torrential rains have transformed roads into muddy torrents, promoting the proliferation of mosquitoes in stagnant waters and the spread of the virus.

Present for a few years in southern China. the mosquito Aedes albopictus Involved here grip important epidemic, china takes already brings dengue regularly (16,000 cases last year). For Huang Cunrui. public health professor at Tsinghua University, “This chikungunya fever spreads all the more easily since the Chinese population lacks immunity and that international trade is growing”. He notes “The role of global warming in the extension of the mosquito season”with the risk that dengue. chikungunya go from the status of transmitted diseases imported to that of endemic epidemics.

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