Chikungunya whipped Antilles-Guyana in December last year is an "epidemic" of "indirect" 33 people died, said on Thursday, Health Minister Marisol Touraine, will be the next week.
"This week is one major epidemic with approximately 5,000 new cases," said Marisol Touraine, in RMC / BFMTV. Ministry ", the disease indirectly caused the death of 33 persons, including the frail elderly, affecting about 100,000 people and caused 1,000 hospitalizations in the French departments of America."
"Epidemic plaguing the West Indies and French Guiana is a major health problem," the ministry said in a statement that "at the beginning of summer and the rainy season, the breeding of mosquitoes, which feared an increase in the number of cases."
Woman Martinique and Guadeloupe Touraine from after 16 to July 18, "to mobilize protection of the valley of the evolution of the epidemic and the government to remind health services? State."
"The key is to make sure that it does not increase no standing water, the mosquitoes, the repellents and mosquito nets to protect, to prevent the spread of the disease is very tired, very dangerous and requires collective mobilization," said the minister told reporters.
Also in line with the long school holidays during the rainy season, which is about 400 000 people from hexagonal Antilles-Guyana, especially in the Caribbean visiting family. A government is that some travelers return to the city is experiencing growth drivers tiger mosquito virus, the vector of this disease.
Chikungunya is a high fever, pain in the joints (the dengue carrying mosquito bites as well).
Like seasonal flu, this disease can be fatal for people with weakened, but often harmless.
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