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Indigenous Cases of "West-Nile" Fever Detected in Île-De-France, Never Seen
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Two patients were identified in Seine-Saint-Denis, the health authorities announced this Wednesday, a first so high in the north of France. They added to five other indigenous cases registered in the South this summer.
Indigenous cases – i.e., resulting from on-site contamination – have already been reported in metropolitan France in previous years, but never so in the north.
▶️ Indigenous cases of contamination with the West Nile virus have for the first time been observed in Ile-de-France. It is an infection that is transmitted through a mosquito bite. The majority of cases are asymptomatic, note the health authorities. - West Nile virus: for the first time, indigenous cases detected in Île-de-France (Health and well-being).
This virus is transmitted via mosquito bites. But, unlike chikungunya or dengue, it is not the tiger mosquito that is involved, but the genus Culex, much more widespread in metropolitan France.
The virus is transmitted by the mosquito of the genus Culex, a common insect in France, which feeds mainly in the evening and at night, to differentiate from the tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) which feeds during the day.
Early cases of the West Nile virus, transmitted by mosquitoes, had been detected this summer in the Var.
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