{"id":371134,"date":"2025-08-25T01:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371134\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T01:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:34:09","slug":"the-largest-chikungunya-outbreak-in-mainland-france-sparks-hunt-for-tiger-mosquito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371134\/","title":{"rendered":"The largest chikungunya outbreak in mainland France sparks hunt for tiger mosquito"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">On a humid August night, a masked figure dressed all in white sprayed insecticide into the darkest corners of gardens, sending cats fleeing and dogs barking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">It was 4:30 am on Tuesday, August 19, in a housing development in La Fare-les-Oliviers (Bouches-du-Rh\u00f4ne, southern France), and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Walh, an operator with the Entente Interd\u00e9partementale pour la D\u00e9moustication du Littoral M\u00e9diterran\u00e9en (EID M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e, Interdepartmental Agreement for Mosquito Control along the Mediterranean Coast), was crawling through bushes in search of tiger mosquitoes. The air started stinging in his wake, and the acrid smell of deltamethrin \u2013 a pyrethroid insecticide \u2013 prompted the few bystanders to take shelter indoors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">Standing in his boxer shorts at his gate, Raymond Khayat, 78, who has lived in this house for 45 years, came out to meet him to let him in to the backyard, where a small pool was hidden behind the fig trees. From the window, his wife, Marie, worried: &#8220;And the figs? Are we not going to be able to eat them anymore?&#8221; According to instructions distributed earlier in mailboxes, they should wait two or three days and rinse them thoroughly.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img viewbox=\"0 0 664 443\"   width=\"664\" height=\"443\" alt=\"Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Walh, an EID M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e agent, sprayed insecticide in La Fare-les-Oliviers (Bouches-du-Rh\u00f4ne), on August 19, 2025.\"\/>    Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Walh, an EID M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e agent, sprayed insecticide in La Fare-les-Oliviers (Bouches-du-Rh\u00f4ne), on August 19, 2025.  ANNE MOCA\u00cbR FOR LE MONDE                   <\/p>\n<p class=\"reading-mode-only \"><strong>You have 86.84% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a humid August night, a masked figure dressed all in white sprayed insecticide into the darkest corners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-371134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115086836561746000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}