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  • Authorities closed roads and sent stay-at-home alerts to residents living in Paris
  • Climate change could create the idea; tropical conditions of the Asian mosquito 

Paris has fumigated for the first time to stop deadly Asian tiger mosquitos spreading dengue fever across the French capital. 

Authorities closed roads in two of the capital’s suburbs and scrambled to send stay-at-home alerts to residents of the city, while pest controllers sprayed insecticide in potential breeding hotspots. 

Dengue fever, dubbed ‘break-bone fever’ for its painful joint pain symptom, can also cause high fever, headaches, body aches, nausea and rashes, according to the World Health Organisation

The disease is more common in tropical climates, raising concerns that heat waves and severe flooding, that are becoming more frequent as the climate changes, could result in the insects posing a greater danger in Europe. 

The fumigation operation in the French capital not the first of its kind in France, with pest-controllers attempting to get ahead of the rise in tropical diseases in the southern parts of the country.

The mosquitos are native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asiaand ad can easily adapt to different environments, particularly urban ones

The mosquitos are native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asiaand ad can easily adapt to different environments, particularly urban ones

It follows after two people were identified to have been infected with dengue while abroad, raising concerns that Aedes albopictus, also known as the ‘Asian tiger mosquito’ could bite an infected person and spark a chain of transmission in the country. 

The mosquitos are native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asiaand ad can easily adapt to different environments, particularly urban ones, invading cities by a vast laying its eggs in small volumes of water. 

The tiger mosquito transmits disease by biting humans and spreading viruses such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika. 

The deadly mosquito was first spotted in France in 2004, and has now been found in 71 of the 96 departments on the mainland.

Adding to fears of the rate and proximity of its invasion, it has also been spotted in 13 countries, including all of Italy and Croatia, and parts of Spain and Germany.  

Dr Andrea Ammon, director of the ECDC, told The Telegraph in June: ‘If this [trend] continues, we can expect to see more cases and possibly deaths from diseases such as dengue’. 

Dr Jolyon Medlock, head of medical entomology and zoonoses ecology at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), told The Telegraph that ‘in 10 to 15 years’ the UK will also face a scourge of the Asian tiger mosquitoes. 

400 million people around the world are infected with with dengue each year and at least 100 million become ill as a result. 

Paris has fumigated for the first time to stop deadly Asian tiger mosquitos spreading dengue fever across the French capital

Paris has fumigated for the first time to stop deadly Asian tiger mosquitos spreading dengue fever across the French capital

Most people who get dengue won’t have symptoms, with cases being generally mild, but with 500,000 people hospitalised annually, between 20,000 and 40,000 of these patients die.

This year has seen major outbreaks in much of Asia and South America, with Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Peru and Bolivia among those worst hit. 

On Thursday Guatemala declared a national health emergency as the virus has killed 22 and infected more than 12,000 since January.

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