2024-04-26 09:31:00
The first three cases of “native” cholera have been identified in Mayotte, where ten imported cases had been recorded since mid-March among migrants, particularly from neighboring Comoros, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) announced on Friday.
These cases, the first to come from internal pollution in the department of the Indian Ocean, were “identified in the municipality of Koungou”, north of Mamoudzou, Olivier Brahic, director general of ARS, said during a “press conference”. “The most likely thing” is that these patients were contaminated by “a sick person (who) did not present himself to Samu”, he continued.
The three persons in question are a woman, a man and an infant, with no biological link between them.
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“We must monitor this situation closely, we are in the process of initiating measures to identify contacts, put them on antibiotics and we are organizing vaccination of the residents of this area,” Brahic added.
At the same time, a screening center will be opened on site and 20 doctors and nurses will come as reinforcements on Saturday in Mayotte.
Before these three cases, ten had been confirmed in Mayotte since March 18, but all imported, most of them in people coming from neighboring Comoros, where an epidemic has been raging since the beginning of the year and which many migrants from the Democratic Republic of through. of the Congo.
Cholera is an acute form of diarrhea that can kill within hours and is caused by bacteria that is usually transmitted through contaminated water or food.
In February, ARS presented a response plan in case the disease is introduced in the overseas department.
Health checks at borders and field interventions have been strengthened and a secure hospital circuit has been established.
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