Less than a month after Chambray-lès-Tours, it is the turn of the Fondettes, in the Touraine agglomeration, to be affected by a case of dengue. In a press release sent to our editorial office, the Regional Health Agency said that“A case imported from Dengue during a recent trip has stayed in the town”. Consequently, as had already been the case in the Petit-Clos district, in Chambray-lès-Tours, on the night of July 10 to 11, 2025, the ARS announces “Targeted Demoustication Actions in localized areas of the municipality, given the presence of the tiger mosquito in this sector”. Indeed, the tiger mosquito is a vector of propagation of dengue.
No local transmission observed
This treatment carried out by disinsectors will take place on Friday August 8, from 10:30 p.m. and “Will only concern the district around the cemetery for which the inhabitants will be informed”said the press release. Also according to the Regional Health Agency, “To date, no local disease of a mosquito has been noted at Fondettes or in the Center-Val de Loire region”.
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In its press release, the regional agency repeats that the best way to avoid the spread of dengue is to avoid the proliferation of tigers mosquitoes “by removing all the places and objects that can contain water. If the containers cannot be emptied, access to water should be deleted by installing mosquito nets for example on rainwater tanks, sand in flower cups, etc. »»
