Taiwan's Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a level-one travel health notice (practice usual precautions) for
chikungunya fever and a level-two notice (practice enhanced precautions) for the Zika virus for people traveling to Myanmar, the Taipei Times reported.
Taiwan has issued its highest-level travel advisory in its three-tier system for four Southeast and South Asian countries after a record high number of imported
chikungunya fever cases from those countries were reported in Taiwan.
Chikungunya fever is an arboviral infection, caused by an RNA virus of the Togaviridae family.
Chikungunya fever in travelers: clinical presentation and course [published online May 23, 2007].
Chikungunya fever: a clinical and virological investigation of outpatients on Reunion Island, South-West Indian Ocean.
Chikungunya fever is a mosquito-transmitted viral disease caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV; genus Alphavirus, Togaviridae).
The Department of Health, in fact, mentioned that they observed that the virus spread in Mindanao after typhoon Sendong hit the region in 2011, a characteristic usually observed in other parts of the world where
Chikungunya fever emerges after heavy rains.[13] Based on a study done by Day and Shaman,[14] rainfall affects the life and behavior of mosquito vectors in various ways.
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The Official Spokesman of Blue Nile State Government said the Council of Ministers also heard updating from Health Minister about
chikungunya fever and the preventive efforts made by the Ministry.
Chikungunya fever: clinical manifestations and management.
The local government and public health engineering department were asked to ensure continuous water supply to high-risk areas to avoid water storage practice which may lead to breeding of Aedes mosquito responsible for the spread of dengue and
chikungunya fever. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), especially in Peshawar, around 70 people died due to dengue fever and over 24,000 people tested positive for carrying the virus between July and October 2017.
There were no reports of absenteeism due to
Chikungunya fever in the years 2014 and 2015 in both SIASS units.