Current Travel Health News
Current Travel Health News
Take precautions against dengue fever when travelling abroad
Dengue fever is now endemic in more than 100 countries in Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. This includes various popular tourist destinations for Hong Kong people including the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
Detailed information on the latest Dengue fever situation in Hong Kong, as well as neighbouring and overseas countries and areas, can be found at the Centre for Health Protection’s website: https://www.chp.gov.hk/files/pdf/df_imported_cases_and_overseas_figures_eng.pdf
Travellers planning to travel in these areas should take precautions against the disease. Travellers returning from areas where dengue fever is prevalent should seek medical advice as soon as possible if they feel unwell and provide travel details to their doctors.
For more information on dengue fever, including the latest situation in neighbouring and overseas countries and areas, please visit the Centre for Health Protection’s thematic webpage at https://www.chp.gov.hk/en/features/38847.html
Take precautions against Mpox (also known as monkeypox) when travelling abroad
Mpox (also known as monkeypox) is a zoonotic disease caused by Mpox virus. Often found in tropical forest regions of Central and West Africa.
It is mainly transmitted by contact with infected animals, human-to-human transmission is limited. Incubation period is mainly from 6 to 13 days, symptoms are similar with Smallpox infection, but less severe.
Since 6 May 2022, multiple outbreaks wer
e reported in Europe and North America countries, and many patient are self-identified as bisexual or men who have sex with men. Travellers planning to travel in these areas should avoid contact
with infected person. Travellers returning from these areas shall notify the doctor to seek medical treatment and inform the travel situation if feeling unwell.
For more information on Mpox, including the latest situation in overseas countries or places, please visit the World Health Organization and Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection’s thematic webpages at: https://www.who.int/health-topics/monkeypox#tab=tab_1
https://www.chp.gov.hk/en/features/105683.html
USA: Avian Influenza [Update]
14 February 2025
Ohio state health officials have reported the state's first probable human case of
Influenza A (H5) in an adult male Mercer County farm worker who was in contact with deceased commercial poultry was infected with the virus.
Pakistan: Poliomyelitis [Update]
14 February 2025
Today, officials in
Pakistan has confirmed the detection of the second wild
Poliovirus type 1 case of the year, this from District Badin, Sindh province.
Brazil: Oropouche Fever [Update]
14 February 2025
Through February 11 this year, the Ministry of Health reports 4310 confirmed cases of
Oropouche fever, with the bulk of the cases in 4021 cases reported in Espirito Santo state in southeastern
Brazil.
USA: Measles [Update]
14 February 2025
The
Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting an outbreak of
Measles in Gaines County. At this time, 24 cases have been identified with symptom onset within the last two weeks.
Uganda: Mpox (monkeypox)
14 February 2025
The
Uganda Ministry of Health reported 150 additional
Mpox cases in the past week or so, including three deaths from multiple districts.
Brazil: Dengue Fever [Update]
14 February 2025
The Health Surveillance Coordination, of the Municipal Health Department of São Paulo, confirmed the first death from
Dengue fever in the capital this year.
Angola: Cholera [Update]
14 February 2025
In a follow-up on the
Cholera outbreak in
Angola, the Ministry of Health now reports 3,043 cases and 101 deaths as of February 9.
Uganda: Ebola Virus Disease
14 February 2025
The
Uganda Ministry of Health has recorded five additional new confirmed
Ebola Virus Disease cases and no deaths.
Mainland China: Avian Influenza
14 February 2025
China has reported two more
H9N2 Avian flu infections in humans, both of them patients from Hunan province in the southern part of the country.
(Source: CIDRAP 12 February 2025)
Bangladesh: Chikungunya Fever and Zika Virus Infection
13 February 2025
Bangladesh has recorded 67 cases of
Chikungunya and 11 cases of
Zika virus in the country in 2024, according to a report of The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research.
Argentina: Dengue Fever [Update]
11 February 2025
From epidemiological week 31 of 2024 to week 5 of 2025, 28,815 suspected cases of
dengue were reported in
Argentina in the National Health Surveillance System, of which 467 were confirmed.
Philippines: Dengue Fever [Update]
11 February 2025
Officials with the
Iloilo Provincial Health Office report an increase in
dengue fever cases during the first month of 2025. Late last week, health officials report 385 cases and four deaths during January 2025, a 58 percent increase from the same period in 2024, when 244 cases and no deaths were recorded.
South Sudan: Mpox (monkeypox)
11 February 2025
The South Sudan Ministry of Health declared a
mpox outbreak in
Juba, Central Equatoria State on Friday. The case was confirmed Thursday in a Ugandan national and a resident of Kupuri Camp in Juba.
Nigeria: Lassa Fever [Update]
11 February 2025
Nigeria health officials have reported 53 deaths due to
Lassa fever during the first four weeks of 2025, a 10 percent increase compared to the same period last year (48). To date, 290 confirmed cases, 1171 suspected and one probable Lassa fever case has been reported.
Cuba: Oropouche Fever [Update]
11 February 2025
To date, there have been 23,639 suspected cases and 626 confirmed
Oropouche fever cases in
Cuba.
USA: Measles [Update]
11 February 2025
The Georgia Department of Public Health has confirmed two additional
measles cases in unvaccinated metro
Atlanta residents.
Brazil: Dengue Fever [Update]
11 February 2025
According to the Brazil Ministry of Health, the state of
São Paulo has recorded 134,627 probable
dengue cases through February 7, which accounts for 58.4 percent of the cases nationally (230,191).
Brazil: Yellow Fever [Update]
11 February 2025
During the first four weeks of 2025,
São Paulo state for all of Brazil's seven confirmed cases of
yellow fever, including four deaths.
Colombia: Typhoid Fever
11 February 2025
A
typhoid outbreak is being reported in the city of Medellin in Antioquia department in the central northwestern part of
Colombia. Fourteen cases have been confirmed so far this year.
USA: Mpox (monkeypox) [Update]
11 February 2025
An adult from
New Hampshire, recently traveled to Eastern Africa, has been diagnosed with clade I
mpox. This is the first clade I mpox diagnosis in New Hampshire and the third in the US.
Ireland: Mpox (monkeypox)
11 February 2025
The
Ireland Health Service Executive reports detecting an imported case of clade I
mpox, who had recently travelled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Virgin Islands: Dengue Fever
11 February 2025
To date, for 2025, 15 cases of
dengue have been reported on the island of
St. Croix, according to the Territorial Epidemiologist for the Virgin Islands Department of Health.