This is not the first case of dengue indigenous detected this year in the Occitanie region. There was one a month ago Plaisance-du-Touch, and more recently near Montauban. This time, health authorities have received a report of a new confirmed case in Toulouse, in the Amidonniers district. The second case concerns a person living in the same household as the first.
None of them had traveled to a country in the tropics. Unlike so-called imported cases. But it is often through these latter infected people that it is transmitted via the bites of tiger mosquitoes. In Haute-Garonne, since the beginning of the year, a total of 22 dengue cases have been detected and in 27% of cases they lived in Toulouse. Among these cases, 16 were imported, six were indigenous, specifies the Regional Health Agency.
“The disease can then manifest itself in the person who has been bitten, on average within 4 to 7 days following the infectious bite”, indicates the regional health agency, which will carry out a mosquito control operation in the district concerned, in night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
A door-to-door health survey in the neighborhood will also be conducted on Wednesday, during which information will be issued on the symptoms to detect an infection: a high fever that appeared suddenly, headaches, muscle, joint or lumbar pain.
