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Mayotte: is there a link between the cholera epidemic and a defective batch of Cristaline?
Mayotte: is there a link between the cholera epidemic and a defective batch of Cristaline?
(France 2)
In Mayotte, there are now 122 cases of cholera. On TikTok, videos explain that this death is linked to the consumption of contaminated Cristaline water. True or false ?
According to several publications widely shared on the social network TikTok, and sometimes accumulating millions of views, a 3-year-old child and several other people died after drinking Cristaline water. However, this is false. Information is at the origin of the rumor: the announcement, on May 13, of a defective batch of Cristaline by the regional health agency (ARS) of Mayotte.
The Cristaline brand, for its part, mentioned “bottles with the smell of hydrocarbons which do not present any bacterial contamination”, and therefore no danger to human health. A few days earlier, the Mayotte ARS reported a first death from cholera in the territory, “a 3-year-old child from a precarious neighborhood in the archipelago”explains journalist Sophie Broyet.
Social networks then went wild. This would therefore be a confusion between the two separate news items. The ARS clarified that no link exists between the defective batch and the death of the child.
