France reported 10 circumstances of dengue fever in its southeastern city of Sainte-Cecile-les-Vignes, in keeping with an official assertion.
The first case on this sequence was reported by a healthcare employee on Aug. 14, which helped authorities detect an imported case and 9 new autochthonous circumstances in the identical neighborhood, the Regional Health Agency of Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur mentioned Thursday.
Authorities carried out larviciding operations within the city to remove probably contaminated mosquitoes and thus stop the illness from spreading.
The whole variety of autochthonous dengue fever circumstances in metropolitan France rose to 16 this yr, in keeping with broadcaster France Info.
The first autochthonous case of 2024 within the nation was reported on July 8 within the southern division of Herault.
The French Public Health Agency (Sante Publique France or SPF) earlier introduced that 1,031 imported circumstances have been detected between May 1 and Aug. 13.
An “autochthonous” case refers to an individual contaminated in metropolitan French territory, with out having traveled within the contaminated areas of the world 15 days previous to the emergence of the signs.
The viral an infection is transmitted to people via contaminated mosquitoes.
Source: www.anews.com.tr