Lyons. The dengue virus detected on this sector: the mosquito hunt is launched

Mosquito searching is open in a city of Monts d’Or, close to Lyon.

On the evening of Tuesday September 6 to Wednesday September 7, 2022, an “distinctive preventive therapy” towards the tiger mosquito might be carried out within the city of Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d’Or, within the metropolis of Lyon.

Two instances of dengue detected

Requested by the Regional Well being Company (ARS) of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, this operation will goal the tiger mosquito after the detection of two instances of dengue in individuals who have visited the realm.

The ARS has certainly detected two instances of dengue throughout the similar household who not too long ago returned from a visit to a tropical nation the place this incurable virus circulates. After finishing up investigations to find out the locations of passage of the victims, the ARS instructed the Rhône-Alpes Interdepartmental Mosquito Management Settlement (Eirad) to find out whether or not tiger mosquitoes have been recognized in these areas. A threat space in Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d’Or has been detected.

This mosquito management operation goals to eradicate all of the tiger mosquitoes (the one potential vectors of the illness in France) more likely to have bitten the 2 victims and thus transmit the illness by biting a 3rd occasion.

How are mosquitoes going to be killed?

In the course of the evening of Tuesday September 6 to Wednesday September 7, a automobile will flow into within the areas frequented by contaminated individuals the place they have been more likely to be bitten by a tiger mosquito.

Between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m., the machine will diffuse a robust insecticide on its method for about fifteen minutes. Eirad reassures: the insecticide is deployed over a radius of about fifty meters across the emitting automobile, the product is rapidly dispersed within the air within the type of droplets which might be innocent to people.

Residents situated within the space involved have with out exception obtained a doc by submit to tell them of the passage of the automobile and the procedures put in place.

” No worries “

In the course of the day of Wednesday, September 7, specialists might be deployed on the positioning to examine the effectiveness of the therapy and the success of the mosquito management.

This isn’t supposed to eradicate tiger mosquitoes in the long run on this space: solely bugs more likely to carry the illness might be killed to forestall its proliferation, however a inhabitants of tiger mosquitoes will rapidly return to the realm.

Briefly, “no worries” in response to Eirad, which this summer season carried out solely 11 such therapies within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes area, “which is weak”. The ARS, in the meantime, will proceed to watch that no new instances are detected within the space.

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