Macau has recorded this year’s 11th imported case of chikungunya fever, the Health Bureau (SSM) has announced.
The case, which was confirmed on Friday, was announced in a statement that night.
According to the statement, the patient is a 37-year-old local woman who lives in a residential building located near the private Kiang Wu Hospital.
The woman visited Kaiping, a county-level city administered by Jiangmen City, between July 20 and Thursday last week, where she came down with a rash on her arms but did not seek treatment.
After returning to Macau on Thursday, the statement said, the rash spread to her legs, after which she sought treatment at the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre on Friday where she was diagnosed with chikungunya fever and was then hospitalised.
The woman was in a stable condition at the time of Friday’s statement.
In response to the woman’s case, according to a separate SSM statement on Friday night, the bureau launched special mosquito eradication operations in the vicinity of her home, as well as around the Barrier Gate checkpoint and in the vicinity of the central library in Praça do Tap Seac.
Cryoelectron microscopy reconstruction of chikungunya virus, dated December 8, 2013 – Image courtesy of A2-33/Wikimedia Commons
