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The tiger mosquito, very present in France this summer, is a potential virus vector. How to protect yourself from it? The point with the doctor and journalist Damien Mascret, present, Tuesday July 12, on the set of 19/20.
How can the tiger mosquito be a virus vector? “He acts as an intermediary, for a few days, between an infected person and a person who is not yet infected.“, explains the doctor and journalist Damien Mascret, present, Tuesday July 12, on the set of 19/20. They can transmit diseases “disabling or severe“, like dengue fever.
The tiger mosquito, which is growing a lot in mainland France, could pose a public health problem. “When several conditions are met. First, the tiger mosquito must be present everywhere, (…) that it has temperature conditions between 15 and 25 degrees, (…) and that there are many sick people to bite and transmit to someone. another“, indicates the doctor. A situation which could become a reality in a few decades, according to experts.
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