The Regional Health Agency announces, this Thursday, March 3, that 90 cases of dengue fever were reported in 18 municipalities in Reunion from February 7 to 20.
Since January 1, 376 people have contracted dengue fever, three people have been hospitalized for dengue fever, two of which are severe, and ten visits to the emergency room have been recorded.
“Although the figures remain lower than those of previous years over the same period, the epidemiological situation is being carefully monitored”, specifies the prefecture of Reunion. In recent weeks, heavy rains have contributed to “the appearance of many breeding sites, likely to promote the development of mosquitoes and therefore the transmission of the disease”.
To prevent a new epidemic wave, the ARS vector control service has been reinforced since March 1 by firefighters from the SDIS. 56 volunteer firefighters from the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) are mobilized on a daily basis.
With the ARS teams, they carry out interventions and treatments in the courtyards and gardens of the neighborhoods where dengue fever is circulating.
The last cases of dengue fever recorded are distributed in the following municipalities:
- South (57% of cases): Petite Ile, Saint-Joseph, Saint-Louis, Saint-Pierre, Étang-Salé, Cilaos, Saint-Philippe, Between two
- West (26% of cases): La Possession, Le Port, Saint-Leu, Saint-Paul, Trois-Bassins
- North: Saint-Denis, Sainte-Marie
- East: Saint-Benoît, Saint-André, Sainte-Suzanne.
No outbreak of dengue fever has been identified over the past two weeks.
- Protect yourself, including during the 7 days following the appearance of symptoms to protect those around you (repellent, mosquito net, etc.); Continue to protect yourself, even if you have already been sick with dengue before; several dengue serotypes can circulate and infection with one serotype does not protect against attack by another serotype.
- Eliminate and empty stagnant water from mosquito breeding grounds: anything that can contain water at home and all around your home…
- Consult a doctor at the first symptoms: fever, headache, muscle/joint pain, nausea, vomiting… and take the sample in the medical analysis laboratory prescribed by your doctor to confirm the diagnosis of dengue fever.
- If you are sick with dengue fever:
– continue to protect yourself against mosquito bites to avoid transmitting the disease to those around you and monitor your state of health, especially between the 4th and 8th day of illness.
– consult your doctor or an emergency service if your state of health deteriorates.