2023-06-11 08:00:00
Pn a windless night, at 11 p.m., they arrived in pairs, dressed in protective suits, masks and “armed” with thermal foggers. Alix and Arnaud in a residential area of Portel-des-Corbières in Aude, their colleagues Hugo and Carlos in downtown Perpignan. Two scenes worthy of a science fiction film that the technicians of Altopictus, vector control operator for the ARS (regional health agency), have been experiencing more and more often for a few years. The company is in fact responsible for treating specific areas by nebulization of insecticides against the tiger mosquito, vector of dengue, chikungunya and Zika viruses. “These two specific places were identified by the ARS after collecting information from a person carrying a virus, specifies Guillaume Lacour, scientific manager of Altopictus. These are places where she went and where tiger mosquitoes could have bitten her, and thus become vectors of one of these viruses. »
After a period of hibernation, the tiger mosquito becomes active again in the spring. These “tiger brigades” therefore resumed their surveillance mission on 1is may. Since then, five cases of so-called “imported” viruses, by travelers returning from an infected area, have already been identified in Occitania, requiring eight treatments. “Luckily, the tiger mosquito is a homebody, explains Florian Vernichon, who supervises these preventive field actions to avoid friends. […] Read more
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