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Source: http://www.english.rfi.fr/visiting-france/20140806-tropical-disease-south-france
France - Europe -
Article published the Wednesday 06 August 2014 - Latest update : Wednesday 06 August 2014
Tropical disease in the south of France
By RFI
Seventeen people in the French Riviera are suffering from mosquito-borne tropical diseases. Many of these people were travelling in the Caribbean and in Brazil, where they are believed to have contracted the diseases, before returning to France.
According to health authorities in Nice-Matin in the French Riviera, four people contracted dengue fever, eleven have chikungunya, and two people suffer from both diseases. These diseases are both transmitted by the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) that is found in France...
France - Europe -
Article published the Wednesday 06 August 2014 - Latest update : Wednesday 06 August 2014
Tropical disease in the south of France
By RFI
Seventeen people in the French Riviera are suffering from mosquito-borne tropical diseases. Many of these people were travelling in the Caribbean and in Brazil, where they are believed to have contracted the diseases, before returning to France.
According to health authorities in Nice-Matin in the French Riviera, four people contracted dengue fever, eleven have chikungunya, and two people suffer from both diseases. These diseases are both transmitted by the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) that is found in France...