Taiwan’s Center for Disease Control has announced the island territory’s first case of the mosquito-borne chikungunya fever in a 40-year-old woman who recently returned from China.

The report comes as the most recent ailment outbreak surpasses 10,000 in the City of Forshan in the mainland’s Guangdong Province.

Taiwan has since updated its travel advisory, calling on its citizens to take “enhanced precautions.”

The woman’s home came under scrutiny with health officials investigating it for infected mosquitoes

The woman who contracted the virus had been visiting family in China since the middle of July, during which she remembers being bitten by mosquitoes.

She returned from her vacation on July 30, and by August 1, she fell ill. She was admitted to the hospital on the same day, complai

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