{"id":3621,"date":"2025-08-13T13:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:39:58","slug":"pandemic-fears-erupt-as-chinas-agonising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3621","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic fears erupt as China&#8217;s agonising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>China Faces Record Chikungunya Outbreak<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China has recorded over <strong>10,000 cases<\/strong> of chikungunya, believed to be the country\u2019s largest outbreak on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mosquito-borne virus can cause fever, joint pain, headaches, muscle aches, swelling, and rash. The young, elderly, and those with pre-existing health issues are most at risk, and <strong>\u201cthere are no medicines to treat the condition,\u201d<\/strong> according to the US CDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The worst-hit area is Foshan in Guangdong province, but infections have reached <strong>Hong Kong<\/strong> (five cases) and <strong>Taiwan<\/strong> (one case linked to the mainland). Authorities are distributing mosquito nets, spraying disinfectant, and even deploying drones to eliminate breeding grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>UKHSA<\/strong> said its teams monitor mosquito threats, test samples, and provide travel health advice. Experts warn that the virus\u2019s <strong>\u201crapid global spread reflects our interconnected world\u201d<\/strong> and that climate change could expand mosquito habitats, increasing the risk in new regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Faces Record Chikungunya Outbreak China has recorded over 10,000 cases of chikungunya, believed to be the country\u2019s largest outbreak on record. The mosquito-borne virus can cause fever, joint pain, headaches, muscle aches, swelling, and rash. The young, elderly, and those with pre-existing health issues are most at risk, and \u201cthere are no medicines to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}