A disease that is being closely analyzed as the Olympic Games approach. Since May 1, 417 cases of dengue have been imported into France, indicates Public Health France (SPF) in a new report published this Wednesday, June 5 on its website.
In total since the beginning of the year, the national agency has recorded “2,166 imported cases of dengue, 82% of which were contracted in Martinique or Guadeloupe and 5% in Guyana, departments where there is a major epidemic.”
Added to this balance are 5 imported cases of chikungunya and 2 imported cases of Zika, viruses transmitted, like dengue, by the tiger mosquito.
Explosion of imported cases
The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region is where the most imported cases of dengue have been detected since May (73), ahead of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region (64) and the Alps Island (43). ).
The number of imported dengue cases has soared in mainland France since the beginning of the year. Over the past five years, the average number of cases reported through mandatory notification was 128 between January 1 and April 30.
However, Public Health France notes this year that “no episode of indigenous transmission has been detected until June 4, 2024” in France.
Surveillance of diseases transmitted by the tiger mosquito is reinforced from May 1 to November 30 of each year, a period in whichAedes albopictus is the most active.
The tiger mosquito, which arrived in France in 2004, has gradually established itself in much of the metropolitan territory. As of January 1, it was present in 78 of 96 departments.
Source: BFM TV
