First two autochthonous dengue virus infections in metropolitan France, September 2010

G La Ruche; Y Souarès; A Armengaud; F Peloux-Petiot; P Delaunay; P Desprès; A Lenglet; F Jourdain; I Leparc-Goffart; F Charlet; L Ollier; K Mantey; T Mollet; J P Fournier; R Torrents; K Leitmeyer; P Hilairet; H Zeller; W Van Bortel; D Dejour-Salamanca; M Grandadam; M Gastellu-Etchegorry

doi:10.2807/ese.15.39.19676-en

Rapid communications Open Access

Like 0

Download

First two autochthonous dengue virus infections in metropolitan France, September 2010
G La Ruche¹ , Y Souarès¹ , A Armengaud² , F Peloux-Petiot³ , P Delaunay⁴ , P Desprès⁵ , A Lenglet⁶ , F Jourdain⁷ , I Leparc-Goffart⁸ , F Charlet³ , L Ollier⁴ , K Mantey⁶ , T Mollet⁶ , J P Fournier⁴ , R Torrents² , K Leitmeyer⁶ , P Hilairet⁴ , H Zeller⁶ , W Van Bortel⁶ , D Dejour-Salamanca¹ , M Grandadam⁵ , M Gastellu-Etchegorry¹
View Affiliations Hide Affiliations

Affiliations: ¹ French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Institut de Veille Sanitaire, InVS), Saint-Maurice, France ² Regional office of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Cire Sud), Marseille, France ³ Regional Health Agency of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille and Nice, France ⁴ Entomology-Parasitology, Virology and Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine Departments, University Hospital of Nice, Nice, France ⁵ Institut Pasteur, National Reference Centre for arboviruses, Paris, France ⁶ European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ⁷ Directorate General for Health, Ministry of Health, Paris, France ⁸ Institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, National Reference Centre for arboviruses associated laboratory, Marseille, France

Correspondence:
G La Ruche
g.laruche invs.sante.fr
View Citation Hide Citation

Citation style for this article: La Ruche G, Souarès Y, Armengaud A, Peloux-Petiot F, Delaunay P, Desprès P, Lenglet A, Jourdain F, Leparc-Goffart I, Charlet F, Ollier L, Mantey K, Mollet T, Fournier J P, Torrents R, Leitmeyer K, Hilairet P, Zeller H, Van Bortel W, Dejour-Salamanca D, Grandadam M, Gastellu-Etchegorry M. First two autochthonous dengue virus infections in metropolitan France, September 2010. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(39):pii=19676. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.15.39.19676-en Received: 24 Sept 2010

Previous Article
Table of Contents
Next Article

Abstract

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.