LThe cholera epidemic is “contained”. This is what the Minister Delegate for Health Frédéric Valletoux assures, traveling to Mayotte this Thursday while a three-year-old girl died on Wednesday, the first victim of the epidemic which has been raging on the island for around two month.
“We have a cholera outbreak which is contained. There is no explosion, but that does not mean that it will stop overnight,” the minister told the press, on the sidelines of a visit to the island’s university hospital. If “the number of cases that we have today is not stabilized”, the “rapid, coordinated and proportionate intervention of the services” made it possible to keep the “situation under control”, he added .
Earlier, the minister visited the Kirson district of Koungou, where at least fifty cases of cholera have been declared to date and where a three-year-old girl died Wednesday evening.
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Frédéric Valletoux noted that in neighboring Comoros, “the epidemic started a month and a half earlier but today there are thousands of cases and almost a hundred deaths.” “We see that in Mayotte, the response is adequate,” he compared.
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On site, he spoke with the teams from the Regional Health Agency (ARS) responsible for disinfecting homes as soon as a case is suspected. “We also distribute antibiotics to relatives and we vaccinate the most […] Read more
