Chikungunya: Meeting to launch vaccination campaign on Monday

The peak of the epidemic for this disease, transmitted by tiger mosquitoes, is expected in mid-April in Reunion.

The island is facing an unprecedented epidemic outbreak, forcing hospitals to activate their white plan. The vaccination campaign starts on Monday for vulnerable populations. The health situation in Réunion reaches a critical threshold. Faced with the explosion of cases of chikungunya, the authorities have decreed the white plan, an exceptional measure [...] The article Chikungunya in Réunion: state of declared health emergency, imminent vaccina…

Paris, 4 Apr 2025 (AFP) – "The most delicate weeks are coming" in La Réunion, where the peak of the chikungunya epidemic is expected in mid-April, said overseas minister Manuel Valls on Friday, who will go there from Saturday. "There is a huge job that is done to fight [...]

There has been a marked epidemic of chikungunya in Reunion since the beginning of 2025. In early April, the deaths of two people aged 86 and 96, one of whom had co-morbidities, and 14 newborns were in intensive care. An update is given on this disease, which remains unknown and on this unprecedented epidemic...