CDC issues urgent travel alert as virus outbreak hits exclusive sunny islands destination

A radical of exclusive sunny islands are connected alert arsenic the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an urgent informing of a microorganism outbreak.

The Seychelles, a radical of islands successful the Indian Ocean, were deed with a level 2 alert astir the Chikungunya virus.

"There is an outbreak of chikungunya successful Seychelles," the alert said.

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"You tin support yourself by preventing mosquito bites."

Common symptoms are a fever and associated symptom starting 3 to 7 days aft a wound from an infected mosquito, according to the CDC.

The Seychelles, a radical of islands successful the Indian Ocean, were deed with a level 2 alert astir the Chikungunya virus. (iStock)

Headache, musculus pain, associated swelling, oregon rash are different symptoms — with astir radical recovering wrong a week.

"Some tin person terrible associated symptom for months to years pursuing acute illness," the CDC's tract says. "Death from chikungunya is rare."

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The CDC recommends that travelers get the chikungunya vaccine and instrumentality precautions to forestall mosquito bites.

Travelers should "use insect repellent, wear long-sleeved shirts and pants, and enactment successful places with aerial conditioning oregon that person screens connected the windows and doors."

The Seychelles consists of 115 islands disconnected the seashore of East Africa. Above, an aerial presumption of Mahé Island and Eden Island.  (iStock)

In December, the CDC issued Level 2 question advisories for Cuba, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Guangdong Province successful confederate China — advising Americans to "practice enhanced precautions" erstwhile visiting these areas.

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The Seychelles consists of astir 115 islands disconnected the seashore of East Africa, with 354,034 travelers visiting from January to November of past year, according to authorities data.

Crystal Kayak astatine Anse Source d'Argent, La Digue, successful the Seychelles.  (iStock)

The Vallée de Mai nationalist parkland is 1 of the world’s smallest earthy UNESCO World Heritage sites. 

It is location to galore unsocial wood species.

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Another UNESCO tract is the land of Aldabra, which is 1 of the world’s largest raised coral atoll.