2024-01-28 19:00:01

Although the number of dengue cases is decreasing, Martinique remains in an epidemic phase. Since the start of the epidemic, 7 deaths and nearly 13,400 cases of dengue have been recorded.

According to the latest epidemiological situation update from Public Health France, the estimated number of cases clinically suggestive of dengue fever decreased during the 3rd week of January, a week during which 280 patients would have consulted a city general practitioner compared to 320 per week. former.

The weekly number of home visits carried out by SOS-doctors for dengue syndrome amounted to 39 in the 3rd week of January, compared to 41 the previous week.

We are in an epidemic of moderate scale. Currently, there have been just over 13,400 cases since the start of the epidemic. We have little worse, since during the 2010 epidemic we had up to 40,000 cases of dengue fever recorded with nearly twenty deaths. But, even if we are at 13,000 cases, we still have 26 patients who developed serious forms. Unfortunately, we had to record 7 deaths at the hospital level.

Jacques Rosine, head of Public Health France in Martinique interviewed by Bianca Careto

Since the start of the epidemic, 1,363 visits to the emergency room for dengue syndrome have been recorded, of which 304 (22%) visits were followed by hospitalization.

In week 2024-03, 24 visits to the emergency room were recorded (25 in week 2024-02), including 6 (25%) visits to the pediatric emergency room. These 24 visits to the emergency room gave rise to 6 (25%) hospitalizations, including 2 hospitalizations of pediatric cases.

According to the head of Public Health France, we might expect “to a return to a more or less normal situation by February or, at the latest, early March.”

The latter underlines that the decline of the epidemic “also depends on all the actions that we will carry out individually.

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