France detects 11 indigenous cases of Chikungunya fever in Montpellier

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Four people with Chikungunya in Montpellier after mosquito bites

These are so-called autochthonous cases in people living in Montpellier and contracted chikungunya virus after being bitten by tiger mosquitoes. The regional health agency will make a press conference at 16 h 30 to explain the phenomenon.

Laurence Creusot - Published 10/21/2014

Four people are infected with the chikungunya virus in Montpellier. They did not return travel but were infected with the virus after mosquito bites tigers in downtown Montpellier.

All four belong to the same family. A first test showed virus contamination, the second test results are expected by the LRA.

The regional health agency must hold a press conference at 16 h 30 to explain the occurrence of these cases and their severity.

Contamination of the virus is carried by the moutique and never intervenes between man and man. The affected individual is suffering from a high fever and joint and back doulaeurs.

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Re: France detects 4 indigenous cases of Chikungunya fever in Montpellier

Re: France detects 4 indigenous cases of Chikungunya fever in Montpellier

Chikungunya ? France

Disease outbreak news

23 October 2014

On 21 October 2014, WHO was notified by the National IHR Focal Point for France of 4 cases of chikungunya locally-acquired infection in Montpellier, France. The cases were confirmed by tests conducted by the French National Reference Laboratory for arboviruses on 20 October 2014. This is the first time that locally-acquired transmission of chikungunya has been detected in France since 2010.

The 4 cases of chikungunya infection occurred within the same family, with symptoms onset between 20 September and 12 October. The cases live in Montpellier in the vicinity of a chikungunya case imported from Cameroon. The cases have no history of travel out of their district of residence in the 15 days prior to the onset of symptoms.

French public health authorities have implemented the following public health measures:

Vector control aimed at preventing local transmission.

Provision of information about the awareness of the cluster, the signs and symptoms of the disease, when and where to seek care, and how to prevent infection.

Advice to health care practitioners on clinical case management.
Assessment of the risk of infection through blood and tissues donations.

Chikungunya is a viral disease that is rarely fatal and is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes. Symptoms of chikungunya include high fever and headache, with significant pains in the joints (ankles, wrists), which can persist for several weeks. The symptoms appear between 4 and 7 days after the patient has been bitten by an infected mosquito. The name, chikungunya derives from a word in Makonde language roughly meaning ?that which bends up?, reflecting the physique of a person suffering from the disease.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/23-october-2014-chikungunya/en/

 

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Re: France detects 6 indigenous cases of Chikungunya fever in Montpellier

Re: France detects 6 indigenous cases of Chikungunya fever in Montpellier

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31/10/2014

Two new indigenous cases of chikungunya in Montpellier

Two new cases of autochthonous chikungunya were discovered in Montpellier, after five others released mid-October, said Friday the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Languedoc-Roussillon. These two new cases "cured and healthy," confirm that the home affects only a single area of ​​Montpellier, the Las sorbed, all infected people living there or having stayed.

The previous case involved a person who had stayed there. The other four were adults of the same family of Montpellier aged 40 to 60 years. The LRA had identified a neighbor of the family, returning from a country affected by chikungunya, without wishing to specify which one.

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Re: France detects 11 indigenous cases of Chikungunya fever in Montpellier

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Eleven cases of chikungunya in Montpellier: all people are cured

According to the ARS (Regional Health Agency) Languedoc-Roussillon, 11 indigenous cases of chikungunya in Montpellier are recorded to date. All those infected are cured.

According to ARS (Regional Health Agency) Languedoc-Roussillon, 11 indigenous cases of chikungunya in Montpellier are recorded to date. 7 cases were confirmed in the neighborhood Las Sorbes October 31 and four more have been reported since.

These are people who have been bitten, even in Montpellier by the tiger mosquito carrier of chikungunya. " These 11 cases occurred between September 9 and October 22. All those people who have developed symptoms several weeks they are cured and healthy "indicates the ARS.

The entire neighborhood Las Sorbes was treated with successive interventions mosquito control conducted by the Interdepartmental Agreement Mosquito (EID). The circulation of the virus would be "contained," says the organization.

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