{"id":219669,"date":"2025-08-08T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/what-is-chikungunya-a-guide-to-the-virus-spreading-in-china"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:43:00","slug":"what-is-chikungunya-a-guide-to-the-virus-spreading-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/what-is-chikungunya-a-guide-to-the-virus-spreading-in-china","title":{"rendered":"What Is Chikungunya? A Guide to The Virus Spreading in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-chikungunya-a-guide-to-the-virus-spreading-in-china.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cases of chikungunya <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/fever\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">fever<\/a> are rising in southern China, prompting local authorities to take measures to curb its spread.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what you need to know about the disease:<\/p>\n<p><b>What is chikungunya?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chikungunya is caused by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">virus<\/a> that can be passed to humans by infected mosquitoes, with most cases occurring in Africa, Asia and the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cases of chikungunya fever are rising in southern China, prompting local authorities to take measures to curb its spread. Here is what you need to know about the disease: What is chikungunya? Chikungunya is caused by a virus that can be passed to humans by infected mosquitoes, with most cases occurring in Africa, Asia and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}