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According to the latest data published by public health France, on Friday 13 November 2020, the peak of the dengue epidemic is behind us. there is a marked decrease in viral circulation. For the first time in three months we are under a thousand cases per week.
For the first time in three months, the dengue epidemic fell below the 1,000 cases per week threshold during the week with 780 cases identified, according to the latest data published by Public Health France, on Friday, November 13, 2020.
Epidemiological surveillance indicators show a marked decrease in viral circulation. Health services remain mobilized. Vigilance on the maintenance of control measures against the vector mosquito (Aedes aegypti) therefore remains essential during this period of heavy rain and flooding.
Doctors are seeing this downward trend in the number of visits to a doctor’s office or home. The share of dengue in the total business of the SOS Medecins association has therefore steadily decreased over the past 5 weeks. Biological cases regularly decrease as do pediatric emergency visits.
The outbreak that started a year ago has now reached its epidemic peak in week 2020-40. Since then, epidemiological surveillance indicators have shown a marked decrease in viral circulation.
Since the onset of the outbreak (2019-45), 29,800 clinically suggestive cases of the DENV-3 majority serotype have been recorded.
Thirty-five people with severe cases were admitted to an intensive care or resuscitation ward (adult or pediatric services). In total, 14 deaths in hospital and at home have been reported since the outbreak began, including 11 since the beginning of September 2020. Of these, 10 have been classified by the Martinique University Hospital services directly linked to dengue fever . , 2 indirectly related to dengue and 2 under evaluation.
Martinique therefore remains in Phase 4 level 1 “dengue: confirmed epidemic” of the PSAGE (Outbreak Surveillance, Alert and Management Program).
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