Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
machinetranslated
november 14, 2010
Malaria - First indigenous case diagnosed in Strasbourg
A man residing in the district of Strasbourg Neudorf was bitten by a mosquito that transmitted malaria. The disease was diagnosed and treated last week to the university hospitals of Strasbourg. The patient is doing well.
It's opening a package from Cameroon that two or three mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles have escaped, one of them stabbing the Strasbourg by inoculation with the parasite plasmodium. "This is the first indigenous case detected in Strasbourg to my knowledge, said yesterday Professor Daniel Christmann, who heads the department of infectious diseases and tropical NHC Strasbourg. It was about fifty patients with malaria each year, but they become ill while traveling in countries where it is endemic. "
The Regional Health Agency (LRA) of Alsace has warned GPs Friday asking them to be alert to all suspicious symptoms within four weeks. Indeed, mosquitoes have a life expectancy of three to four weeks and can travel distances of 300 to 400 meters around the place of discovery. In addition, the mild temperatures of this mid-November will promote their survival ...
"Situations that will need to adapt"
"The most common symptoms of malaria include fever and headache, resumed the professor. But it can also be added digestive phenomena, which may pose diagnostic problems by pretending to gastro-enteritis. "
We already knew the airport malaria, where people are infected by mosquitoes that have traveled on the plane. There were also alerts tiger mosquito, vector of chinkugunya and whose presence has been established in southern France. "These are situations that need to be able to adapt," says the professor. After all, malaria was once common in the plain of Alsace, until the late nineteenth century ...
lalsace
november 14, 2010
Malaria - First indigenous case diagnosed in Strasbourg
A man residing in the district of Strasbourg Neudorf was bitten by a mosquito that transmitted malaria. The disease was diagnosed and treated last week to the university hospitals of Strasbourg. The patient is doing well.
It's opening a package from Cameroon that two or three mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles have escaped, one of them stabbing the Strasbourg by inoculation with the parasite plasmodium. "This is the first indigenous case detected in Strasbourg to my knowledge, said yesterday Professor Daniel Christmann, who heads the department of infectious diseases and tropical NHC Strasbourg. It was about fifty patients with malaria each year, but they become ill while traveling in countries where it is endemic. "
The Regional Health Agency (LRA) of Alsace has warned GPs Friday asking them to be alert to all suspicious symptoms within four weeks. Indeed, mosquitoes have a life expectancy of three to four weeks and can travel distances of 300 to 400 meters around the place of discovery. In addition, the mild temperatures of this mid-November will promote their survival ...
"Situations that will need to adapt"
"The most common symptoms of malaria include fever and headache, resumed the professor. But it can also be added digestive phenomena, which may pose diagnostic problems by pretending to gastro-enteritis. "
We already knew the airport malaria, where people are infected by mosquitoes that have traveled on the plane. There were also alerts tiger mosquito, vector of chinkugunya and whose presence has been established in southern France. "These are situations that need to be able to adapt," says the professor. After all, malaria was once common in the plain of Alsace, until the late nineteenth century ...
lalsace