EPIDEMIOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE OF INFLUENZA A ND DENGUE-FEVER IN REUNION ISLAND, 1996

Citation
C. Lassalle et al., EPIDEMIOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE OF INFLUENZA A ND DENGUE-FEVER IN REUNION ISLAND, 1996, Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales, 91(1), 1998, pp. 61-63
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Tropical Medicine","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath",Pathology
ISSN journal
00379085
Volume
91
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
61 - 63
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-9085(1998)91:1<61:ESOIAN>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
The local Welfare and Health Authorities together with the country cou ncil of Reunion island set up a medical supervision network for influe nza and dengue fever in March 1996. Influenza of which the spreading o ver the island has never been well-researched is anticipated by a vacc ination campaign organised in an empirical way after a model from the mother country (France). Dengue fever of which one of the vectors is o mnipresent on the island raged in an epidemic way in 1978. The aim of this network based on watching doctors, the laboratories of the island as well as the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar is to adapt the preven tion (Flu) and alert the Health Authorities in case of epidemic (Dengu e). The article shows the results of 1996 observation and touches on t he future of this type of supervision in a tropical environment.