A treatment will be sprayed at night to avoid any transmission of the virus. The operation is scheduled in two streets on the island of Nantes, frequented by the contaminated person during their viremic period.
A preventive insecticidal processing operation will be carried out overnight Thursday to Friday on the island of Nantes. This intervention was scheduled “Following the infection at the virus of the dengue confirmed in a person returning from a stay in an area where the disease circulates ”said the ARS of the Pays de la Loire in a press release. From 1 a.m. to 2:30 a.m., Mandated Returokil and Inovals operators will spray an insecticide based on Pyrethrinoids in the Nadine Gordimer and Magdeleine streets, as well as the interior courses served. The goal is to prevent the transmission of the virus.
According to surveys carried out by the Regional Health Agency, “This district was frequented by this person during their viremia period (period during which the virus is present in the blood and can infect a mosquito-tiger during a bite)”. Thus, within a radius of 150 meters from the identified place nestle larvae and adult mosquitoes. “This preventive, exceptional insecticide treatment aims to eliminate Adult mosquitoes Who could have pricked the sick person and become carriers of the dengue virus, to prevent them from transmitting him to other people residing or circulating within the perimeter. ”
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During the operation, residents were warned of the precautions to be taken, as remaining inside his home to avoid any exposure, even if “The product used is safe for the population with applied dosage”. ARS specifies that this treatment is not “A so -called“ comfort ”demoustication operation, falling under local communities, which concerns more the general regulation of nuisance linked to mosquitoes, in particular by the treatment of larval lodges”.
This summer, already two similar operations took place in two different places in the city of Bouguenais, on the Nantes outskirts, where dengue cases have been identified. This disease, transmitted to the human being by mosquito-tiger bite, is mostly asymptomatic. Sometimes she can “However, to evolve towards serious forms requiring hospitalization. There is no specific treatment, hence the importance of prevention: long clothing, mosquito nets, repellents, etc. ”. A national site makes it possible to point out the presence of the mosquito-tiger, in order to fight against its proliferation.