2023-07-11 00:40:54
With 378 imported cases of dengue fever, 23 of chikungunya and six of Zika, the year 2022 was “exceptional” in metropolitan France, reports a study by Public Health France published on Tuesday July 11. The Aedes albopictus mosquito, otherwise known as the tiger mosquito and implanted in metropolitan France since 2004, has continued to spread over the territory.
To limit the risk of transmission of the arboviruses that it can spread (dengue, chikungunya and Zika), monitoring of cases, imported and indigenous, has been in place since 2006, recalls the weekly epidemiological bulletin of SpF. Indigenous cases refer to patients who have not traveled to areas where the virus circulates widely such as the West Indies, but were bitten by an infected mosquito in contact with an infected traveler.
Tiger mosquito: finally a method to fight once morest their proliferation
Despite surveillance, the epidemiological situation with regard to dengue in metropolitan France was “exceptional in 2022”, according to Public Health France. Indigenous transmissions have been more intense with a high number of episodes: the number of cases identified for the year 2022 alone is greater than the total number of cases identified over the period 2010-2021 (66 cases versus 48).
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New geographical areas were affected with the occurrence of six of the nine episodes
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