The virus of the chikungunya touches 70.000 people with the Meeting
PARIS (Reuters) - the Minister for Health, Xavier Bertrand, announces that 70000 people were touched up to now by the virus of the chikungunya, transmitted by the mosquitos, with the Meeting.
"We are on a rate/rhythm of progression of 20.000 cases per week", specified Xavier Bertrand at the time of a joint press conference with Fran?ois Baroin (Overseas) and Leon Bertrand (Tourism).
Fran?ois Baroin announced the sending with the Meeting of 300 soldiers of metropolis and 77 frameworks of civil Safety, which will come to be added to the 500 men already deployed on the island to take part in the operations of demoustication.
In addition, 65 additional beds were open in the medical structures of the Meeting and hundred others will be it if the needs justify it. Twenty doctors and thirty nurses of metropolis were dispatched on the spot.
On the whole, 3.600 people, all confused services, will be committed on the ground, according to the Minister for the Overseas.
A series of messages of information on the disease and the means of protecting itself will be diffused in the media.
Xavier Bertrand made a point of stressing that the insecticides and larvicides used to destroy the mosquito vector of the disease "are products recommended by WHO and usually used in metropolis and in the Antilles".
A polemic on the possible toxicity of these products currently develops with the Meeting.
The mayors of two important communes, Saint-Paul and the Port, decided more to use them on their territory.
Leon Bertrand for its part stressed that the Meeting "is not a prohibited destination". But it specified that the travellers were "to be informed of the precautions to be taken" against the punctures of mosquito.
The sector of tourism, which represents 10.000 direct employment, records a significant number of cancellations and a fall of the reservations for the next months.
A TEAM Of WHO To the MEETING
From the economic point of view, Fran?ois Baroin indicated that an interdepartmental circular made it possible right now to the prefect of the Meeting to take measures in favour of the companies in difficulty because of the epidemic: terms of payment of the tax liabilities and social, compensation for the short-time working.
On the 70.000 cases declared since the beginning of the epidemic in March 2005 (nearly 10% of the population), 65.000 were it since mid-December.
"It is very difficult to estimate the people number completely cured to date", specified Gilles Br?cker, director of the national Institute of medical day before (Invs).
The strong articular pains which constitute the principal symptom of the chikungunya generally disappear after a few weeks from evolution.
The medical authorities maintained Tuesday the diagnosis "by defect" of a first fatality of the virus, boy a nine year old deceased on January 13.
Twenty-five other cases of death, mentioning the chikungunya like one of the possible causes of death, were listed to date, primarily at old people.
Identified in East Africa in 1953, the chikungunya had until now struck of the African and Asian countries stripped on the medical level.
The ignorance of the disease prevents the medical profession from making a diagnosis as for the duration of the epidemic.
"the World Health Organization decided this morning to send a team to the Meeting", specified Xavier Bertrand, who wishes "to accelerate the efforts of research" on the chikungunya and other emergent diseases transmitted by the mosquitos.
PARIS (Reuters) - the Minister for Health, Xavier Bertrand, announces that 70000 people were touched up to now by the virus of the chikungunya, transmitted by the mosquitos, with the Meeting.
"We are on a rate/rhythm of progression of 20.000 cases per week", specified Xavier Bertrand at the time of a joint press conference with Fran?ois Baroin (Overseas) and Leon Bertrand (Tourism).
Fran?ois Baroin announced the sending with the Meeting of 300 soldiers of metropolis and 77 frameworks of civil Safety, which will come to be added to the 500 men already deployed on the island to take part in the operations of demoustication.
In addition, 65 additional beds were open in the medical structures of the Meeting and hundred others will be it if the needs justify it. Twenty doctors and thirty nurses of metropolis were dispatched on the spot.
On the whole, 3.600 people, all confused services, will be committed on the ground, according to the Minister for the Overseas.
A series of messages of information on the disease and the means of protecting itself will be diffused in the media.
Xavier Bertrand made a point of stressing that the insecticides and larvicides used to destroy the mosquito vector of the disease "are products recommended by WHO and usually used in metropolis and in the Antilles".
A polemic on the possible toxicity of these products currently develops with the Meeting.
The mayors of two important communes, Saint-Paul and the Port, decided more to use them on their territory.
Leon Bertrand for its part stressed that the Meeting "is not a prohibited destination". But it specified that the travellers were "to be informed of the precautions to be taken" against the punctures of mosquito.
The sector of tourism, which represents 10.000 direct employment, records a significant number of cancellations and a fall of the reservations for the next months.
A TEAM Of WHO To the MEETING
From the economic point of view, Fran?ois Baroin indicated that an interdepartmental circular made it possible right now to the prefect of the Meeting to take measures in favour of the companies in difficulty because of the epidemic: terms of payment of the tax liabilities and social, compensation for the short-time working.
On the 70.000 cases declared since the beginning of the epidemic in March 2005 (nearly 10% of the population), 65.000 were it since mid-December.
"It is very difficult to estimate the people number completely cured to date", specified Gilles Br?cker, director of the national Institute of medical day before (Invs).
The strong articular pains which constitute the principal symptom of the chikungunya generally disappear after a few weeks from evolution.
The medical authorities maintained Tuesday the diagnosis "by defect" of a first fatality of the virus, boy a nine year old deceased on January 13.
Twenty-five other cases of death, mentioning the chikungunya like one of the possible causes of death, were listed to date, primarily at old people.
Identified in East Africa in 1953, the chikungunya had until now struck of the African and Asian countries stripped on the medical level.
The ignorance of the disease prevents the medical profession from making a diagnosis as for the duration of the epidemic.
"the World Health Organization decided this morning to send a team to the Meeting", specified Xavier Bertrand, who wishes "to accelerate the efforts of research" on the chikungunya and other emergent diseases transmitted by the mosquitos.
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