{"id":872825,"date":"2025-09-14T00:14:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/hk-reports-sixth-imported-chikungunya-case\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T00:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:14:33","slug":"hk-reports-sixth-imported-chikungunya-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/hk-reports-sixth-imported-chikungunya-case\/","title":{"rendered":"HK reports sixth imported chikungunya case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tHealth officials on Tuesday reported a new imported infection of chikungunya fever, bringing the total to six this year. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe latest case of the mosquito-borne disease involved a man, 31, who lives in Kwai Tsing District.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Centre for Health Protection said the man travelled to Foshan in Guangdong province \u2013 where an outbreak was reported \u2013 from August 1 to 3, but that he did not recall being bitten by mosquitoes there.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe developed fever, rash and joint pain last Friday, several days after returning to Hong Kong. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe man travelled to Shenzhen over the weekend and sought medical help there before coming back to the city. <\/p>\n<p>\nOn Monday, he sought treatment at Yan Chai Hospital and is now in stable condition there. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe SAR has so far reported six imported chikungunya fever cases and one probable infection this year.\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1817844-20250812.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials on Tuesday reported a new imported infection of chikungunya fever, bringing the total to six this year. The latest case of the mosquito-borne disease involved a man, 31, who lives in Kwai Tsing District. The Centre for Health Protection said the man travelled to Foshan in Guangdong province \u2013 where an outbreak was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":872826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[803,33004],"tags":[10768,12892],"class_list":["post-872825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reports","category-sixth","tag-reports","tag-sixth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}