23 new Aboriginal cases of Chikungunya, transmitted by the Tiger mosquito, were detected in the town of Vitrolles on July 25, in the Croze farm district, near Pennes-Mirabeau. This episode triggered after the appearance of an imported case, a traveler who returned from the meeting, where the transmission of the virus is particularly active.
“There is not for the moment an epidemic but we remain vigilant“, reassured this Tuesday afternoon Olivier Brahic, Deputy Managing Director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) PACA. And to recall that”The symptoms of chikungunya are very telling: high fever, headache, fatigue, joint pain … Once these signs are identified, the patient must quickly report to a health professional so that the competent authorities can intervene and initiate antivectoral control operations (Demoustication editor’s note) “.
The ARS Environmental Health Department has already carried out demustication interventions on two -thirds of the active home of the Croze farm (the perimeter concerns 160 homes) last week and is about to take care of the last third this week.