{"id":11016,"date":"2025-12-10T17:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11016"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:43:40","slug":"what-is-chikungunya-cdc-issues-travel-advisories-amid-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/10\/what-is-chikungunya-cdc-issues-travel-advisories-amid-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"What is chikungunya? CDC issues travel advisories amid outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/2025\/12\/09\/cdc-travel-advisories-chikungunya-disease\/87685083007\/\">USA Today<\/a> Americans have been warned to exercise caution when traveling as certain regions contend with outbreaks of an untreatable&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2025\/10\/29\/yellow-fever-mosquito-spreading-across-us\/86970175007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"mosquito-borne viral disease, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mosquito-borne viral disease<\/a>&nbsp;called chikungunya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/chikungunya\/data-maps\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>&nbsp;issued travel health notices Dec. 5 amid an outbreak of chikungunya cases in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/notices\/level2\/chikungunya-bangladesh\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Bangladesh, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bangladesh<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/notices\/level2\/chikungunya-sri-lanka\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Sri Lanka,, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sri Lanka,<\/a>&nbsp;encouraging Americans to &#8220;practice enhanced precautions&#8221; when visiting these areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similar advisories were issued for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/notices\/level2\/chikungunya-china\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Guangdong Province in southern China, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guangdong Province in southern China<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/notices\/level2\/chikungunya-cuba\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Cuba, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cuba<\/a>&nbsp;in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Large outbreaks and sporadic cases have mostly been reported in the Americas, Asia and Africa. Occasional smaller outbreaks have been reported in Europe, the World Health Organization reports.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today Americans have been warned to exercise caution when traveling as certain regions contend with outbreaks of an untreatable&nbsp;mosquito-borne viral disease&nbsp;called chikungunya. The&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&nbsp;issued travel health notices Dec. 5 amid an outbreak of chikungunya cases in&nbsp;Bangladesh&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sri Lanka,&nbsp;encouraging Americans to &#8220;practice enhanced precautions&#8221; when visiting these areas. Similar advisories were issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chikungunya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11017,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions\/11017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}