Guy La Ruche1, Yvan Souarès1, A. Armengaud2, Françoise Peloux-Petiot3, Pascal Delaunay4, Laurence Briant5, Annick Lenglet6, Frédéric Jourdain7, Isabelle Leparc-Goffart8, F. Charlet3, Laurence Ollier4, K. Mantey6, Thomas Mollet6, Jean‐Pascal Fournier4, Romain Torrents2, Katrin Leitmeyer6, P Hilairet4, H. Zeller6, Wim Van Bortel6, Dominique Dejour-Salamanca1, Marc Grandadam5, M. Gastellu-Etchegorry1
1French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Institut de Veille Sanitaire, InVS), Saint-Maurice, France
2Regional office of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Cire Sud), Marseille, France
3Regional Health Agency of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille and Nice, France
4Entomology-Parasitology, Virology and Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine Departments, University Hospital of Nice, Nice, France
5Institut Pasteur, National Reference Centre for arboviruses, Paris, France
6European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
7Directorate General for Health, Ministry of Health, Paris, France
8Institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, National Reference Centre for arboviruses associated laboratory, Marseille, France
Tóm tắt
In September 2010, two cases of autochthonous dengue fever were diagnosed in metropolitan France for the first time. The cases occurring in Nice, south-east France, where Aedes albopictus is established, are evidence of dengue virus circulation in this area. This local transmission of dengue calls for further enhanced surveillance, active case finding and vector control measures to reduce the spread of the virus and the risk of an epidemic.
