Mayotte: a 3-year-old child dies of cholera, first death since the appearance of cases in March in the territory
A 3-year-old child died of cholera in Mayotte, announced the regional health agency and the prefecture in a press release on Wednesday May 8. This is the first death recorded in the territory since the detection of a first case on March 19. He lived in the Koungou district, where “several cases of cholera had been identified in recent weeks”explains the press release, and where the regional health agency had deployed a screening center and mobile vaccination units. “The intervention teams went to the site to treat the child’s entouraget”, specify the local authorities.
The deputy for the first constituency of Mayotte, Estelle Youssouffa, now evokes a “emergency”in a message posted on the social network X: “I ask Gabriel Attal for massive vaccination and tablets to disinfect water as well as hydroalcoholic gel, distribution of bottled water”. The parliamentarian also requests the “closure of the border at sea to prevent the entry of illegal patients from the Comoros”.
The Minister of Health, Frédéric Valletoux, will be in Mayotte on Thursday and Friday where, according to the latest ARS report dated May 6, 58 cases of cholera have been identified. The first cases were recorded among migrants, some of whom came from neighboring Comoros. A protocol developed in February to prevent the spread of the disease provides for the disinfection of the patient’s home, the identification and treatment of contact cases and vaccination. “in rings”by gradually expanding the area concerned around the home of the patient suffering from cholera.
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