Guadeloupe has passed “In epidemic phase due to dengue” with a rare serotype that could cause “a high number of cases”according to an official press release, issued on Thursday afternoon, November 14, which calls for doing everything possible to “minimize” the impact of the disease.
Meeting during the day, the management committee chaired by the regional prefect took measures “the transition to the epidemic phase of dengue”This joint press release from the prefecture, the association of mayors of Guadeloupe and the Regional Health Agency of Guadeloupe and the Northern Islands specifies.
The authorities are launching “a call for the mobilization of all actors involved” in the fight “to try to minimize the impact of this disease” in the coming weeks.
This year, “a serotype of the dengue virus that has circulated little in the last twenty years”DENV3, makes the authorities fear “serious risks” AND “a high number of cases” Yeah “No decisive control or prevention actions are implemented”according to the press release.
Fight against stagnant water
Among 62 samples analyzed between the end of September and mid-October, “97% are DENV3”according to the latest French Public Health bulletin.
The seasonal threshold for clinical cases (80 cases per week) has been widely exceeded. At the end of October it was estimated at 540 in community medicine, more than double that of September.
In the hospital, Public Health France observed last month “On average, 40 weekly visits to the emergency room for suspected dengue, compared to 25 in September”.
The joint statement from the authorities recalled that it was “primordial” to fight against stagnant water that allows the development of the larvae of the mosquito vector of the disease. These stagnant waters are often “located around or inside houses” and it may have been “Fueled by recent heavy rains”underlines the press release.
It is recommended to wear covered and loose clothing.
The authorities also recommend “wearing loose-fitting, covered clothing”the use of“an approved repellent product” and the use of pre-impregnated mosquito nets.
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The territory is also facing the appearance of a new type of mosquito “highly competent to transmit all arboviruses (Dengue, Chikungunya, Zika)”according to a press release published at the end of October by the Community and Health Agency. These Aedes Albopictus larvae were detected for the first time in the Lorient district, in Saint-Barthélémy, in the north of Guadeloupe, he said.
Dengue, which can cause high fever, body aches and fatigue, is a life-threatening infectious disease.
