Posted on 08/05/2025 10:44:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Chinese officials announced Covid-like quarantines in some cities as cases of chikungunya virus continue to increase.
Over 7,000 cases of the mosquito-borne virus have been reported across the southern city of Foshan in the Guangdong province of the country.
Patients in the city are forced to stay in hospitals where their beds are covered with mosquito nets for a week or until they test negative, if sooner. No deaths have yet been reported.
At least 12 other cities in Guangdong have reported infections, with about 3,000 cases being reported over the past week, bringing the total to over 10,000 in the country.
Those experiencing fevers, joint pain or rashes are being asked to visit the nearest hospital so they can be tested for the virus in the country.
Additionally, officials had ordered travelers from Foshan to undergo a 14-day home quarantine, similar to Covid restrictions, but that has since been withdrawn.
Hong Kong also reported its first chikungunya case this week involving a 12-year-old boy who developed a fever, rash and joint pain after traveling to Foshan in July.
The chikungunya virus is primarily spread by the Aedes mosquito species, and nearly half a million became infected between 2004 and 2005, leading to a worldwide epidemic.
Diana Rojas Alvarez, a medical officer at the WHO, said of the new cases: 'We are seeing history repeating itself,' referencing the 2004-2005 outbreak.
Chikungunya infections are most common in Asia, Africa and South America, though more recently cases have also emerged across Europe and the US.
The virus can cause symptoms like fever, joint pain and life-threatening complications related to the heart and brain.
The infection does not spread from person to person through...
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be here by the early mid terms
quarantines worked so well for the Chicoms the first time around...
Amazing how all these afflictions originate in China...
That’s it, I’m going to Italy.
Keep the Chinese Communist mosquiitos out. Chikungunya has been in Sout/central America for years. If we get it here, esepecially if it enters in the northeast it has to be a deliberate biological attack, either by the Chinese and/or by home leftists trying one more thing to disrupt the nation.
China seems to have “Dominion” over virus cycles, huh?
Mainland China is a seriously dirty place, unbelievably unhygienic by Western standards. It’s really no surprise that so many infectious diseases originate and — more important — spread widely there.
Right on cue, just as Trump’s economic policies are beginning to take hold.
Mid term vaxxes all around. Uh, still declining to participate.
I think this one is from Africa. The problem in China, and many third-world areas, is the concentration of people. So it's easy to jump from one person to the next.
It isn’t passed from human to human and the mortality rate so far is zero. Kind of a cut-rate epidemic if you ask me.
The earlier pre-Communist ones date back hundreds of years.
A couple of the major ones were traced later to be from China, not the places in Europe and elsewhere originally assumed.
Satan has a hand in his Chinese workers’ actions.
China is okay with killing millions their own people.
Wrecking the world economies is the goal.
Why does it always start in China?
Right now there are congressmen wondering if their Chinese honeypot spy has it.
It’s that damn butterfly.
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