Chikungunya: 12 active transmission homes in France

Twelve households of transmission from Chikungunya are now identified in mainland France, for around thirty cases in total, announced on Wednesday health public France, which warns that this upward trend may extend.

“The number of transmission foci illustrates the significant risk of indigenous transmission of these viruses in France,” warns the public health agency in a weekly assessment. “Other cases will probably be identified, including outside the usual transmission areas.”

For the time being, twelve chikungunya transmission homes, whose virus is transmitted via tiger mosquito bites and causes high fevers as well as muscle pain, have been reported, for a total of thirty cases. “In Salon-de-Provence, 13 cases were identified, including two cases domiciled in the neighboring municipalities of Grans and Lambesc,” said Health Public France. “This is the most extensive home at this stage.”

This level, exceptionally high in mainland France so early in the summer, is explained in particular by an overseas epidemic which has struck the meeting and Mayotte in recent months. The health authorities have recorded several hundred cases arrived in mainland France since the spring since the spring.

To this is also added an indigenous case of DENGE, reported in early July in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is for the time being the only one in mainland France, this disease is also transmitted by the tiger mosquito. The risk of an epidemic transmission of these viruses in mainland France is also increased by strong heat: high temperatures contribute to the circulation of the tiger mosquito, a phenomenon accentuated by global warming.