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Chikungunya: 12 cas en Belgique

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</dt></dl> [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica] Le virus a été importé dans notre pays au retour des zones infectées
[/FONT][FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica]BRUXELLES On savait que de nombreux cas - un peu plus de 300 - avaient été diagnostiqués en France. On ignorait que la Belgique, elle aussi, avait été touchée. Entre décembre 2005 et fin avril 2006, douze personnes ont été diagnostiquées, dans notre pays, comme souffrant de la fièvre de Chikungunya. Cette affection, déclenchée par un virus transmis par les moustiques, ravage depuis plus d'un an l'île de La Réunion, où quelque 250.000 patients ont été recensés. Au total, 213 décès y ont été déplorés depuis février 2005. La maladie sévit aussi à Mayotte, aux Seychelles, sur l'île Maurice, en Inde ou encore en Malaisie.
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[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica]Selon un rapport diffusé par Eurosurveillance, une structure de vigilance sanitaire attachée à la commission européenne, l'Europe - et donc la Belgique - n'est plus à l'abri d'un risque de prolifération du virus de Chikungunya. Ce constat est posé par le Centre européen de prévention et de contrôle des maladies, dont le siège se trouve à Stockholm (Suède).
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[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica]Deux éléments justifient cette inquiétude. D'abord, le fait que le virus commence à être importé sur notre continent par des personnes infectées suite à un déplacement dans les zones de l'Océan indien les plus touchées. Une large proportion de ces voyageurs se rendent dans ces régions pour des raisons familiales, mais il est aussi question de touristes de retour de vacances.
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[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica]Deux: l'espèce de moustique vecteur du virus a été introduite dans plusieurs pays européens, notamment la Belgique. Par quelle voie? On pense que les... pneus usagés pourraient être en cause (les moustiques déposent leurs oeufs dans les flaques d'eau qui se forment dans les amas de pneus), ainsi que via les plantes ornementales (lorsque celles-ci, ici aussi, sont transportées dans le l'eau). La Centre de prévention et de contrôle des maladies note que «la plupart des pays du sud de l'Europe disposent de conditions climatiques et écologiques favorables à l'établissement de A. albopictus», le moustique en question.
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[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica]En l'état des connaissances, ajoutent les experts, il est probable que cette espèce de moustiques soit en mesure de transmettre le virus à travers l'Europe. Avec toutes les conséquences sanitaires - préventives et curatives - que cela suppose.
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[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica]J. M.

With the present state of knowledge, add the experts, it is probable that this kind of mosquitoes will be able to transmit this virus trough Europa. With all the consequences; sanitary, preventive and curative that it implies.
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Re: Chikungunya: 12 cas en Belgique

Babelfished:
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Chikungunya: 12 cases in Belgium (05/12/2006)

The virus was imported in our country with the return of the infected zones BRUSSELS One knew that many cases - a little more than 300 - had been diagnosed in France. One was unaware of that Belgium, it also, had been touched. Between December 2005 and the end of April 2006, twelve people were diagnosed, in our country, like suffering of the fever of Chikungunya. This affection, started by a virus transmitted by the mosquitos, devastates since more than one year the island of the Meeting, where some 250.000 patients were listed. On the whole, 213 deaths were deplored there since February 2005. The disease also prevails in Mayotte, Seychelles, on Mauritius, in India or in Malaysia.

According to a report/ratio distributed by Eurosurveillance, a structure of vigilance medical attached to the European Commission, Europe - and thus Belgium - is not any more safe from a risk of proliferation of the virus of Chikungunya. This report is posed by the European Center of prevention and control of the diseases, whose seat is in Stockholm (Sweden).

Two elements justify this concern. Initially, the fact that the virus starts to be imported on our continent by people infected following a displacement in the most touched zones of the Indian Ocean. A broad proportion of these travellers go in these areas for family reasons, but it is a also question of tourists of return of holidays.

Two: the species of mosquito vector of the virus was introduced into several European countries, in particular Belgium. By which way? One thinks that them... worn tires could be in question (the mosquitos deposit their eggs in the water puddle pools which are formed in the clusters of tires), like via the decorative plants (when those, here also, are transported in water). The Center of prevention and control of the diseases notes that "the majority of the countries of the south of Europe have climatic and ecological conditions favorable to the establishment of A. albopictus", the mosquito in question.

In the state of knowledge, add the experts, it is probable that this species of mosquitos is able to transmit the virus through Europe. With all the medical consequences - preventive and curative - that that supposes.

J.M.
 
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If humans have become the primary primate host and no longer a dead end host of chikungunya.... they may have a point.

They should also be concerned about a similiar disease that has shown it has been expanding known vector species and changing primary viral hosts.

> Expansion of known West Nile Virus vectors (CDC, 2006).... http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4524

1999 Known West Nile Virus Vectors in the United States

Aedes Aedes vexans

Culex Culex pipiens, Culex restuans, Culex salinarius

2006 Known West Nile Virus Vectors in the United States

Aedes Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, Aedes atlanticus/tormentor, Aedes atropalpus, Aedes canadensis, Aedes cantator, Aedes cinereus, Aedes condolescens, Aedes dorsalis, Aedes dupreei, Aedes fitchii, Aedes fulvus pallens, Aedes grossbecki, Aedes infirmatus, Aedes japonicus, Aedes melanimon, Aedes nigromaculis, Aedes provocans, Aedes sollicitans, Aedes squamiger, Aedes sticticus, Aedes stimulans, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Aedes triseriatus, Aedes trivittatus, Aedes vexans

Anopheles Anopheles atropos, Anopheles barberi, Anopheles crucians/bradleyi, Anopheles franciscanus, Anopheles freeborni, Anopheles hermsi, Anopheles punctipennis, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, Anopheles walkeri

Coquillettidia Coquillettidia perturbans

Culex Culex coronator, Culex erraticus, Culex erythrothorax, Culex nigripalpus, Culex pipiens, Culex quinquefasciatus, Culex restuans, Culex salinarius, Culex stigmatosoma, Culex tarsalis, Culex territans, Culex thriambus

Culiseta Culiseta impatiens, Culiseta inornata, Culiseta melanura, Culiseta morsitans

Deinocerites Deinocerites cancer

Mansonia Mansonia tittilans

Orthopodomyia Orthopodomyia signifera

Psorophora Psorophora ciliata, Psorophora columbiae, Psorophora ferox, Psorophora howardii

Uranotaenia Uranotaenia sapphirina
 
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Updated with edits (Above). With the documented expansion of known vector hosts able to transmit viral disease and the recent announcement of H5N1 in the blood of a host of H5N1 (a true dead end host... Dead means Dead)... should be alarming.

Further research is needed.
 
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