Twelve Aboriginal cases of malaria have been detected in Mayotte since the beginning of the year, including ten in July, a first for five years, announced on Tuesday August 12, the regional public health branch (SPF). “For the first time since July 2020, 12 cases of user -acquired malaria were recorded in Mayotte: one in February, one in June and ten in July 2025”details SPF in its regional epidemiological bulletin.
In total, 66 cases of malaria were identified on the Indian Ocean archipelago, the majority of imported cases from neighboring Comoros. Twenty-six people were hospitalized and five were admitted to intensive care. “No death has been recorded”specifies SPF.
“In the past five years, we have only identified imported cases, mainly from Comoros, but also from Madagascar and country of continental Africa (…). But the increase in the number of imported cases favored the proliferation of locally ”disease”explained to the France-Presse Youssouf Hassani agency, the regional delegate of SPF. “These figures show that the risk of reintroduction of the disease is there. Above all, we must pay attention to the epidemic outbreak that takes place in the Comoros ”he added, while refusing to speak of « reprise » From the epidemic to Mayotte.
In 2024, 119 imported cases had been recorded in Mayotte, against 38 in 2023. The incidence of Aboriginal cases of malaria has regularly decreased in Mayotte since the early 2000s, from almost 2,000 cases reported in 2002 to only two in 2020, then none until this year. In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) ranked Mayotte among “Territories in the elimination phase of malaria”.
Malaria has almost been eradicated in the Comoros between 2010 and 2016, but this country, whose nearest island (Anjouan) is only 70 kilometers from Mayotte, faces a resurgence of the disease in recent years, even if the number of cases remains distant from the 103,600 recorded in 2010.
