{"id":626885,"date":"2026-10-11T01:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T01:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626885\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T01:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T01:24:09","slug":"chikungunya-dengue-and-west-nile-virus-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626885\/","title":{"rendered":"Chikungunya, dengue and West Nile virus in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Public Health France as of October 5, 146 locally acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0UcpVsE25-I&amp;list=PLDYx_Z0lk3DEVJmNjYt8IwX8dnXa_TEWe&amp;index=14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chikungunya <\/a>cases have been reported in the country in Tarn, Lot, Gard (Occitanie), Gironde, Landes (Nouvelle-Aquitaine), Val-de-Marne (\u00cele-de-France) and Var (Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur).<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!cbWt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb075c234-0755-4dee-9abd-afd13baf1b64_5000x3000.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/b075c234-0755-4dee-9abd-afd13baf1b64_5000.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"874\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/b075c234-0755-4dee-9abd-afd13baf1b64_5000x3000.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:874,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1508489,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/outbreaknewstoday.substack.com\/i\/219794481?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb075c234-0755-4dee-9abd-afd13baf1b64_5000x3000.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition, six locally acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-fzubo0ePqQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dengue<\/a> have also been reported in Tarn, H\u00e9rault (Occitanie), Dordogne (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) and Bouches-du-Rh\u00f4ne (Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur).<\/p>\n<p>Concerning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JVPQwerYGL8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Nile virus<\/a>, 161 locally acquired cases of West Nile virus infection (+16 compared to the previous week) had been identified in mainland France as of October 5.<\/p>\n<p>These cases were located in the regions of Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur (3 departments affected), Occitanie (7 departments affected), \u00cele-de-France (7 departments affected), Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes (4 departments affected), Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Gironde department), Pays de la Loire (3 departments affected), and Centre-Val de Loire (Loiret department). For 15 cases, no specific location of transmission could be identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Public Health France as of October 5, 146 locally acquired chikungunya cases have been reported in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-626885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}