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WHO Warns of Global Chikungunya Risk As China Outbreak Surges Past 10,000 And Reaches New Country

Taiwan’s Center for Disease Control has announced the island territory’s first case of the mosquito-borne chikungunya fever in a 40-year-old woman who recently returned from China.

The report comes as the most recent ailment outbreak surpasses 10,000 in the City of Forshan in the mainland’s Guangdong Province.

Taiwan has since updated its travel advisory, calling on its citizens to take “enhanced precautions.”

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