Health Alerts

News this week of a second Zika virus case in Var department, identified in the same neighbourhood as the earlier case announced on Oct 9 - a ‘localized focus’. Both infections were acquired via bites of infected Aedes albopictus (tiger) mosquitoes and the two affected individuals have now recovered. In the meantime, the ECDC risk assessment on the probability of more Zika virus infections in the Var notes that environmental conditions are no longer favourable and ‘ongoing vector-borne local transmission in Hyères (and surrounding areas) is considered very low because current evidence does not indicate the existence of a more extensive cluster of ZIKV cases’. Read more.