http://www.panapress.com/freenewspor.asp?code=fre080885&dte=24/03/2005
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Moroni, Comores (PANA) - L'?pid?mie de fi?vre s?vissant en Grande-Comore n'est pas la dengue comme on le redoutait mais une maladievirale de type arbovirose appel?e "chikungunya virus", a confirm? ladirection nationale de la Sant? se basant sur les r?sultats desanalyses faites aux Etats-unis.Selon une note technique dont la PANA a obtenu copie jeudi, lamaladie est semblable ? la dengue mais est moins grave et se gu?ritfacilement. En outre, elle immunise en permanence toute personneatteinte sans laisser des s?quelles."Il n'y a pas de vaccin pour la pr?vention", souligne-t-on ? ladirection nationale de la Sant? o? l'on recommande de dormir sousmoustiquaire impr?gn?e tout en renfor?ant les mesures d'hygi?ne etd'assainissement.Selon les statistiques disponibles, 2.000 personnes ont ?t? touch?espar la maladie depuis son apparition fin janvier dans la seule ?le dela Grande-Comore. Ce chiffre ne refl?te pas totalement la r?alit?,plusieurs cas restant s?rement inconnus des h?pitaux.Pour la vice-pr?sidence charg?e du minist?re de la Sant?, cet aspect,qui n'exclut pas une autom?dication contraire aux recommandations desm?decins, fausse quelque peu les donn?es et rend les statistiquesincompl?tes.On rappelle qu'une ?quipe de sp?cialistes d?p?ch?e par l'Organisationmondiale de la Sant? (OMS), renforc?e dix jours plus tard par deuxexperts am?ricains du CDC-Atlanta, ?tait arriv?e le 9 mars ? Moronio? elle s?journe encore pour une ?tude plus approfondie de lamaladie, ? la demande du gouvernement comorien.Si celle-ci se propage sur l'ensemble de la Grande-Comore, lesautorit?s sanitaires rel?vent en cette derni?re semaine de mars uner?gression de la maladie au centre de l'?le o? on en parle d?sormaisde moins en moins.Bien qu'aucun cas n'ait ?t? recens? ? Anjouan et ? Moh?li, lesexperts am?ricains et de l'OMS se rendront dans ces deux ?les pourcompl?ter l'?tude entomologique entreprise en Grande-Comore afin ded?terminer la nature du moustique vecteur de la maladie et le mode depropagation de celle-ci. Le "chikungunya virus" a touch?, pour la premi?re fois, le Kenya, unpays voisin de l'archipel des Comores, o? il a s?vi en juillet etd?cembre 2004, respectivement ? Lamu et Mombasa.</PRE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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The fever detected in the Comoros is not the dengue but "chikungunya" Moroni, the Comoros (BREADED) - the epidemic of fever prevailing into Large-Comore is not the dengue as it was feared but a viral disease of arbovirose type called "chikungunya virus", confirmed the national direction of Health basing itself on the results of the analyses made in the United States. According to a technical note of which BREADED it obtained copy Thursday, the disease is similar to the dengue but is less serious and is cured easily. Moreover, it permanently immunizes any person reached without leaving after-effects. "It there does not have a vaccine for the prevention", underlines one with the national direction of Health where one recommends to sleep under impregnated mosquito net while reinforcing measurements of hygiene and cleansing. According to statistics' available, 2.000 people were touched by the disease since its appearance at the end of January in the only island of Large-Comore. This figure does not reflect completely reality, several cases remaining surely unknown hospitals. For the vice-presidency in charge of the ministry for Health, this aspect, which does not exclude a contrary self medication with the recommendations from the doctors, distorts the data somewhat and makes the statistics incomplete. It is pointed out that a team of specialists dispatched by the World Health Organization (WHO), reinforced ten days later by two American experts of CDC-Atlanta, had arrived on March 9 at Moroni where it still remains for a thorough study of the disease, at the request of the Comorian government. If this one is propagated on the whole of Large-Comore, the medical authorities raise in this last week of March a regression of the disease in the center of the island where one speaks about it from now on less and less. Although no case was listed in Anjouan and Moh?li, the American experts and of WHO will go in these two islands to supplement the entomological study undertaken into Large-Comore in order to determining the nature of the mosquito vector of the disease and the mode of propagation of this one. The "chikungunya virus" touched, for the first time, Kenya, a country close to the archipelago of the Comoros, where it prevailed in July and December 2004, respectively in Lamu and Mombasa.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" align=center bgColor=#ffffff border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD height=10></TD></TR><TR><TD class=titre vAlign=bottom align=middle colSpan=2 height=10>La fi?vre d?tect?e aux Comores n'est la dengue mais "chikungunya" </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD height=2><HR width="96%" color=#001a55 noShade SIZE=1></TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" align=center bgColor=#ffffff border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR align=left><TD class=corps>
Moroni, Comores (PANA) - L'?pid?mie de fi?vre s?vissant en Grande-Comore n'est pas la dengue comme on le redoutait mais une maladievirale de type arbovirose appel?e "chikungunya virus", a confirm? ladirection nationale de la Sant? se basant sur les r?sultats desanalyses faites aux Etats-unis.Selon une note technique dont la PANA a obtenu copie jeudi, lamaladie est semblable ? la dengue mais est moins grave et se gu?ritfacilement. En outre, elle immunise en permanence toute personneatteinte sans laisser des s?quelles."Il n'y a pas de vaccin pour la pr?vention", souligne-t-on ? ladirection nationale de la Sant? o? l'on recommande de dormir sousmoustiquaire impr?gn?e tout en renfor?ant les mesures d'hygi?ne etd'assainissement.Selon les statistiques disponibles, 2.000 personnes ont ?t? touch?espar la maladie depuis son apparition fin janvier dans la seule ?le dela Grande-Comore. Ce chiffre ne refl?te pas totalement la r?alit?,plusieurs cas restant s?rement inconnus des h?pitaux.Pour la vice-pr?sidence charg?e du minist?re de la Sant?, cet aspect,qui n'exclut pas une autom?dication contraire aux recommandations desm?decins, fausse quelque peu les donn?es et rend les statistiquesincompl?tes.On rappelle qu'une ?quipe de sp?cialistes d?p?ch?e par l'Organisationmondiale de la Sant? (OMS), renforc?e dix jours plus tard par deuxexperts am?ricains du CDC-Atlanta, ?tait arriv?e le 9 mars ? Moronio? elle s?journe encore pour une ?tude plus approfondie de lamaladie, ? la demande du gouvernement comorien.Si celle-ci se propage sur l'ensemble de la Grande-Comore, lesautorit?s sanitaires rel?vent en cette derni?re semaine de mars uner?gression de la maladie au centre de l'?le o? on en parle d?sormaisde moins en moins.Bien qu'aucun cas n'ait ?t? recens? ? Anjouan et ? Moh?li, lesexperts am?ricains et de l'OMS se rendront dans ces deux ?les pourcompl?ter l'?tude entomologique entreprise en Grande-Comore afin ded?terminer la nature du moustique vecteur de la maladie et le mode depropagation de celle-ci. Le "chikungunya virus" a touch?, pour la premi?re fois, le Kenya, unpays voisin de l'archipel des Comores, o? il a s?vi en juillet etd?cembre 2004, respectivement ? Lamu et Mombasa.</PRE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Machine Translation:
The fever detected in the Comoros is not the dengue but "chikungunya" Moroni, the Comoros (BREADED) - the epidemic of fever prevailing into Large-Comore is not the dengue as it was feared but a viral disease of arbovirose type called "chikungunya virus", confirmed the national direction of Health basing itself on the results of the analyses made in the United States. According to a technical note of which BREADED it obtained copy Thursday, the disease is similar to the dengue but is less serious and is cured easily. Moreover, it permanently immunizes any person reached without leaving after-effects. "It there does not have a vaccine for the prevention", underlines one with the national direction of Health where one recommends to sleep under impregnated mosquito net while reinforcing measurements of hygiene and cleansing. According to statistics' available, 2.000 people were touched by the disease since its appearance at the end of January in the only island of Large-Comore. This figure does not reflect completely reality, several cases remaining surely unknown hospitals. For the vice-presidency in charge of the ministry for Health, this aspect, which does not exclude a contrary self medication with the recommendations from the doctors, distorts the data somewhat and makes the statistics incomplete. It is pointed out that a team of specialists dispatched by the World Health Organization (WHO), reinforced ten days later by two American experts of CDC-Atlanta, had arrived on March 9 at Moroni where it still remains for a thorough study of the disease, at the request of the Comorian government. If this one is propagated on the whole of Large-Comore, the medical authorities raise in this last week of March a regression of the disease in the center of the island where one speaks about it from now on less and less. Although no case was listed in Anjouan and Moh?li, the American experts and of WHO will go in these two islands to supplement the entomological study undertaken into Large-Comore in order to determining the nature of the mosquito vector of the disease and the mode of propagation of this one. The "chikungunya virus" touched, for the first time, Kenya, a country close to the archipelago of the Comoros, where it prevailed in July and December 2004, respectively in Lamu and Mombasa.