They came for blood — and left behind something worse.

Thousands of people in China have been infected with a painful mosquito-borne virus, triggering the country’s most aggressive public health response since COVID and stoking fears of a potential pandemic.

Now, US health officials are urging travelers to take extra precautions not just in China, but across parts of Asia, Africa and South America, as cases multiply around the globe.

Here’s everything you need to know about the potentially deadly chikungunya virus.

It’s a viral illness that is spread when a mosquito carrying the chikungunya virus bites a person, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

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