Each year, Public Health France sets up reinforced monitoring of the 4 arboviroses present in France (Chikungunya, Dengue, Zika, West-Nile). It takes place from 1is May to November 30, period of activity of the main vector of these diseases in mainland France, mosquitoes Aedes Albopictus and mosquitoes of the genre Culex. The agency has published a new with of this surveillance for the period from 1is May until August 5, 2025.
Chikungunya autochtones, dengue et zika
They correspond to the patients ” Having not recently traveled in virus circulation zone, having contaminated locally ». As of August 5, 2025, 21 transmission episodes were identified in mainland France:
- 16 episodes of Chikungunya (1 to 13 cases per episode);
- 5 episodes of dengue (1 to 3 cases per episode).
They total 72 cases. The latter have occurred in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Corsica, Occitanie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions, which had already been affected in previous years, as well as, for the first time, in the Grand Est and in New Aquitaine.
Public health France recalls the importance of the reporting of cases, ” which allows rapid intervention aimed at limiting transmission This has actually taken place this year so far.
Case imported from Chikungunya, Dengue and Zika
Over the period, we identified:
- 892 cases imported from chikungunya;
- 698 cases imported from dengue;
- 3 cases imported from Zika.
There are many regions and countries of importing country, the main ones being Guadeloupe, French Polynesia, Martinique, Côte d’Ivoire, Indonesia and Thailand. The agency recalls that the occurrence of imported cases is not limited to the reinforced surveillance period. Thus, from 1is January to April 30, 2025, the compulsory declaration made it possible to identify 1,099 cases imported from dengue, 919 cases imported from chikungunya and 5 cases imported from Zika.
The mosquito Aedes Albopictus
Also called tiger mosquito, it is the most invasive mosquito species in the world. From its region of origin, Southeast Asia, it has disseminated from east to west to reach the south of France in 2004. Since then, it has gradually extended to hexagonal territory. At the beginning of 2025, he colonized 81 departments out of the 96 of the metropolis.
Infections au virus West-Nile
As of August 5, 2025, 3 indigenous cases had been identified in mainland France, in the Var, the Bouches-du-Rhône and a third department which could not be determined.
These infections are the subject of a surveillance system associating the sectors of human health and animal health, reinforced during the same period as for other arboviroses. It is indeed the period of activity of vectors of the disease, mosquitoes of the genre Culex. Infections are subject to compulsory reports, including the principal but East ” to avoid serious forms by securing products from the human body ».