Chikungunya is in Burgundy, it’s official. And the victim did not bring her back from a trip, he was infected, in Dijon or near region. A second case is currently suspected “it concerns a person domiciled in Dijon also, declared on August 5, and remains to date pending confirmation by the National Reference Center of Arboviroses” indicates this Friday, August 8, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Bourgogne / Franche-Comté.
This is therefore the first indigenous case (that is to say contracted on site) of Chikungunya reported in Burgundy / Franche-Comté.
“Immediate preventive measures”
A discovery that mobilizes health services against the risk of propagation: “Immediate preventive measures are deployed in Dijon, on targeted perimeters around places of passage from sick people, potential transmission areas. »»
Other people already contaminated since May 1
So is it a tiger mosquito that is the author of contamination? Based (read below), but “since May 1, 2025, Public Health France has identified 35 cases imported from Chikungunya in the region, one in the perimeter of the two cases in progress. The imported cases concern people who have traveled in contaminated areas. »The region-tigers therefore potentially relay the virus.