Parisian health authorities treat French capital for the first time as Zika and dengue-carrying tiger mosquitoes advance through northeastern Europe
The regional health body for the capital, ARS Ile-de-France, said the area targeted for fumigation was 150 metres around the home of a person in the 13th district of the capital who had contracted dengue fever while travelling.
A second fumigation operation has been planned overnight Thursday into Friday in the Colombes suburb northeast of central Paris, after a second person fell sick with dengue fever after returning from a foreign trip. If a tiger mosquito stings a person who has imported a virus from abroad, it then becomes a carrier of the disease.
Health experts say it has thrived on the continent in part because of climate change, with warmer weather shortening the incubation period for its eggs while winters are no longer cold enough to kill off the pests.
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