{"id":434335,"date":"2025-12-08T23:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/434335\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:48:15","slug":"cdc-issues-travel-advisories-for-chikungunya-outbreak-in-4-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/434335\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC issues travel advisories for chikungunya outbreak in 4 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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U.S. health officials have issued travel advisories for Americans planning trips to certain tropical countries amid outbreaks of an untreatable mosquito-borne disease.<\/p>\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Friday that it has issued Level 2 travel advisories for Cuba<\/a>, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Guangdong Province in southern China, advising Americans to “practice enhanced precautions” when visiting these areas.<\/p>\n

Health officials say there are currently no treatments for chikungunya, but the disease is vaccine-preventable, and vaccination is recommended for travelers to affected areas.<\/p>\n

The most common symptoms of the virus include fever and joint pain, though patients may also experience headache, muscle pain, joint swelling or a rash, according to health officials. Symptoms typically appear three to seven days after being bitten by an infected mosquito, and most people recover within a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CDC REPORTS 19TH CRUISE SHIP NOROVIRUS OUTBREAK THIS YEAR, AFFECTING PASSENGERS AND CREW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Tourists visit Varadero, Cuba, on Sept. 21, 2018.\u00a0 (Nicolas Economou\/NurPhoto)<\/p>\n

In severe cases, some may experience severe joint pain lasting months or even years while others “may require hospitalization<\/a> because of the risk of organ damage and death,” according to the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n

According to an Oct. 3 notice from WHO, there have been 445,000 suspected and confirmed cases of chikungunya and 155 deaths worldwide between January and September 2025.<\/p>\n

In Bangladesh, WHO reported 700 suspected chikungunya cases in the capital, Dhaka, between January and September 2025, citing the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research.<\/p>\n

CDC WARNS OF ‘ENHANCED’ VIRUS RISK FOR TRAVELERS AMID OUTBREAK SPREAD BY MOSQUITOES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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A worker sprays in a residential area to prevent the spread of the mosquito-borne disease chikungunya on Oct. 14, 2025, in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. (VCG)<\/p>\n

As of late September, a total of 16,000 locally transmitted chikungunya cases have been confirmed in Guangdong Province, China<\/a>, marking the largest documented outbreak of the disease in the country to date.<\/p>\n

Between January and late September, 34 confirmed cases of chikungunya were reported in Cuba, and public health interventions have been implemented to contain the outbreak.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Sri Lanka, a total of 150 confirmed chikungunya cases were reported between Jan. 1 and the second week of March 2025, WHO said, adding that cases reportedly peaked in June.<\/p>\n

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A picture of a mosquito taken on Aug. 23, 2016. (PHILIPPE HUGUEN\/AFP)<\/p>\n

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The CDC warned that Americans traveling to Brazil<\/a>, Colombia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand may also face an increased risk of chikungunya infection, even if no outbreak is currently reported.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has not seen any locally acquired chikungunya cases in its states or territories since 2019.<\/p>\n

Bonny Chu is a Digital Production Assistant at Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. health officials have issued travel advisories for Americans planning…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":434336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[167954,57214,210,1164,67,132,68,19804],"class_list":{"0":"post-434335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-asia-world-regions","9":"tag-cuba","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-travel","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-viruses"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115686625981481560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}