{"id":155546,"date":"2025-11-23T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155546\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:04:12","slug":"chikungunya-strikes-two-hong-kong-travellers-as-infection-count-rises-to-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155546\/","title":{"rendered":"Chikungunya strikes two Hong Kong travellers as infection count rises to 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong has recorded two more imported cases of the mosquito-borne viral disease chikungunya involving a man and a woman who had both recently travelled to mainland China.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The latest cases pushed the total number of confirmed infections in the city to 70 so far this year, of which four were locally acquired, the Centre for Health Protection said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The man, 69, lives in Yuen Long. He visited Yunnan province with three other friends between November 9 and 16.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to preliminary investigations, the man started having joint pains on Thursday and developed a fever two days later.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He went to the accident and emergency department of Pok Oi Hospital and was admitted for treatment. His blood samples subsequently tested positive for the chikungunya virus.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He is now in stable condition, according to the centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong has recorded two more imported cases of the mosquito-borne viral disease chikungunya involving a man and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26534,62233,26539,6075,103,240,61,60,87736,22471,87737,87738,72021,87735,87739,87740,87741],"class_list":{"0":"post-155546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-centre-for-health-protection","9":"tag-chikungunya","10":"tag-chikungunya-fever","11":"tag-guangdong","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-hong-kong","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-kwai-tsing-district","17":"tag-mainland-china","18":"tag-pok-oi-hospital","19":"tag-princess-margaret-hospital","20":"tag-tsing-yi","21":"tag-yuen-long","22":"tag-yunnan-province","23":"tag-zhongshan","24":"tag-zhuhai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}