Sunday 03/Aug/2025 – 07:13 PM
Guangdong Province, southern China, specifically the city of Foshan, north of Hong Kong, is witnessing a shortage of about two decades in the Xongonia fever, with more than 2,800 new injuries registered in just one week, according to Chinese Central Television.
Thus, the outcome rises to more than 5,000 confirmed injuries so far, most of them in the city of Foshan, which is the current outbreak of the virus transmitted through the upright mosquitoes, and although the disease has not recorded any deaths until the moment, the rapid spread raises the concern of the health authorities and the international community.
It is believed that the first imported case of the virus appeared last July, after which a wave of accelerated injuries began, exceeding 3100 cases in July alone, reflecting the exacerbation of the epidemic situation in the region.
Chronic symptoms and long -term effects
Chiconia fever causes severe symptoms that include high fever, chronic joint pain, rash, and general fatigue, and although the disease is rarely deadly, the injured may suffer from joint pain for weeks or even months, which negatively affects their daily lives.
According to the World Health Organization, the virus poses a threat to more than 5.6 billion people in 119 countries, where it spreads periodically in the tropical and semi -tropical regions such as Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Urgent procedures in Guangdong
The Chinese authorities quickly responded, divorcing an emergency health campaign aimed at containing the outbreak by cleaning stagnant water sources, combating mosquitoes using drones, and launching predators for mosquitoes in waterways.
The authorities announced that these measures contributed to reducing mosquitoes to “safe levels” in about 78% of the villages surrounding Foshan.
Challenges in diagnosis and international warnings
Health sector workers are facing challenges in the diagnosis of cases accurately, due to the similarity of the symptoms of chonginia with other viral diseases such as dengue fever and Zika virus, which increases the difficulty of monitoring and effectively containing proliferation.
In the same context, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States (CDC) is studying a travel warning to China, while assessing the volume of the outbreak and its danger to take appropriate measures.
This outbreak comes after warnings issued by the World Health Organization in July 2025, in which it referred to similar indicators of the 2004-2005 outbreak in the Indian Ocean islands, when nearly half a million people were injured around the world.
