New case of dengue fever near Toulouse: a new “exceptional operation” of mosquito control planned
By David Saint-Sernin
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New case of dengue fever paid close to Toulouse. This imported case, the 36e recorded in Occitania (to which must be added 12 cases of autochthonous dengue fever in the region, editor’s note) since 1uh May, was recorded at Blagnac (Haute-Garonne).
Result, the Occitanie Regional Health Agency a program “an exceptional mosquito control operation” on the night of this Wednesday 12 to Thursday 13 October, between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.).
The targeted perimeters are restricted, only 150 meters in the Rue François Villon district, Place du Relais/avenue de Cornebarrieu district, Airbus sector and rue Gabriel Clerc.
“This treatment is necessary following the detection of a single case of dengue from a tropical country in order to avoid any local transmission (the person is returning from a trip)”, indicates the town hall of Blagnac.
Insecticide treatment
“This exceptional preventive insecticide treatment aims to avoid a chain of local transmission of the disease. It must be carried out around a place provoked by a person infected with the virus The intervention consists of spraying insecticide by a vehicle on the public road, supplemented if necessary by targeted interventions using portable devices in the outdoor spaces of public and private properties”, adds ARS Occitanie in a letter sent to the residents concerned.
Already in September
A first “exceptional mosquito control” had already been performed in the heart of downtown Blagnac, on the night of Tuesday September 6 to Wednesday September 7, 2022.
Launched at the request of ARS Occitanie, the operation was carried out within a perimeter of around 150 meters around the church of the town. The treatment had been launched following the detection of a case of imported dengue fever.
Cases of autochthonous dengue fever in the agglomeration
In Haute-Garonne, to the La Salvetat Saint-Gilles, an outbreak of 4 cases of autochthonous dengue had occurred in the same household, whose symptoms had resumed in the last fortnight of August. No other cases have since been identified and this episode is closed.
A focus of 2 cases of the same type In Toulouse had also occurred in the same household and whose symptoms had declared themselves in the second half of September.
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