2023-05-19 12:43:08
It’s a good thing, but we never tire of repeating it, the Covid remains at a very low level in mainland France, no new hospitalizations. In Overseas France, Reunion has the highest incidence rate. But a priori, spring should continue to unfold calmly on the Covid front.
With sunny days and mild temperatures, mosquitoes point their trunks. special attention must therefore be paid to cases of chikungunya, dengue fever and zika in mainland France.
Since the beginning of May have been identified in the metropolis:
- 11 cases of dengue, and so far no cases of chikungunya and zika this week.
Dengue foci are found in Martinique and Guadeloupe. These outbreaks have been the source of 31 imported cases of dengue fever in mainland France since March 2023.
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, known as Congo fever, killed thirteen people out of a hundred cases of contamination
Let’s go to Iraq. There, the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever known as Congo fever has killed thirteen people out of a hundred cases of contamination since the beginning of 2023, announced the Ministry of Health.
Asked by AFP, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health Saif al-Badr assured that the intensity of the disease transmitted by ticks or cattle, was “currently weaker“than last year marked by an epidemic peak with at least 212 contaminations and 27 deaths.
This year again, the poor and rural province of Dhi Qar (South) records the most cases with 28 contaminations including six deaths, underlines the spokesperson.
The people most affected by hemorrhagic fever are cattle breeders and slaughterhouse employees, said the spokesperson quoted by INA.
The disease is considered endemic in Iraq with cases reported since 1979. But the 2022 outbreak is all the more notable as between 1989 and 2009 only six cases were reported, followed by three fatal cases in 2018 and “33 confirmed cases in 2021, including 13 deaths“, according to the WHO.
Among the hypotheses adopted by the WHO to explain this jump, the absence of pesticide spraying campaigns on animals in 2020 and 2021 which allowed the tick population to increase.
With AFP
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