What you should know about the "outbreak of dengue fever" detected in Nice

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• Two indigenous cases of dengue have been confirmed in Nice and “other suspected cases” are being investigated.

• Dengue fever is a viral disease transmitted by certain mosquitoes in tropical countries.

Nice already has two people infected with dengue in a few days and "other suspected cases have been identified and are being investigated," the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Paca revealed on Monday.

The organization now evokes a "home".

How did they get this tropical disease?

What are the risks ?

What is being done to limit the spread of this virus? 

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Where were the sick infected?

The infected people are "indigenous cases" and they "were probably bitten on French territory by a tiger mosquito carrier and vector of the disease", indicates the ARS.

The first patient was recorded in Nice, in the Pessicart district, and "it is within the framework of the anti-vector control interventions carried out around the first case that this second person was identified, confirming the circulation of the virus of the dengue fever in this area, ”notes the organization.

The patients in question have not traveled to the tropics in the fifteen days preceding the onset of symptoms.

Other cases could still be confirmed.

What are the signs of the disease?

They could be confused with those of the Covid-19.

According to the ARS, 10 to 50% of infected people can suffer from a sudden onset high fever, muscle or joint pain, eye pain, fatigue, headache.

The body recalls, however, that dengue "is asymptomatic in 50 to 90% of cases".

Can dengue be fatal?

There is a severe (or severe dengue) form of the disease.

It can occur in less than 1 to 5% of cases with symptoms.

“It is characterized by hemorrhages that can be life-threatening.

Warning signs appear after 2 to 7 days and the temperature returns to normal.

Clinical vigilance must be maximum around the 4th day ", further specifies the ARS, explaining that" the treatment of dengue is symptomatic "and that" there is no specific antiviral treatment ".

What has been done to stop a possible epidemic?

The interdepartmental mosquito control agreement is planning a product to destroy mosquitoes and their larvae in the district where the diagnosed cases reside, indicates the ARS, which recalls the importance of limiting the possible breeding grounds of these insects (stagnant water).

These operations were carried out in all the places where people could have been stung.

"An information and awareness letter is sent to all general practitioners, hospital doctors, town laboratories and hospital laboratories in the department" to alert in the event of new cases.

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