Arboviral and other illnesses in travellers returning from Brazil, June ă 2013 to May 2016: implications for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games

P. Gautret (1) , F. Mockenhaupt , M. P. Grobusch (2) , C. Rothe , F. Ă Von Sonnenburg , P. J. Van Genderen , F. Chappuis , H. Ă Asgeirsson , E. Caumes (3) , E. Bottieau , D. Malvy , R. Ă Lopez-Velez , M. Jensenius (4, 5) , C. S. Larsen , F. Castelli , C. Ă Rapp , V. Field , I. Molina , E. Gkrania-Klotsas , S. Ă Florescu , D. Lalloo , P. Schlagenhauf

1 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes
2 department of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
3 AP-HP - Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)
4 ESCAR - ESCMID
5 European Network for Surveillance of Tick-Borne Diseases

We evaluated EuroTravNet (a GeoSentinel subnetwork) data from June 2013 ă to May 2016 on 508 ill travellers returning from Brazil, to inform a ă risk analysis for Europeans visiting the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic ă Games in Brazil. Few dengue fever cases (n = 3) and no cases of ă chikungunya were documented during the 2013-15 Brazilian winter months, ă August and September, the period when the Games will be held. The main ă diagnoses were dermatological (37%), gastrointestinal (30%), febrile ă systemic illness (29%) and respiratory (11%).

Domaines: Maladies infectieuses

P. Gautret, F. Mockenhaupt, M. P. Grobusch, C. Rothe, F. Ă Von Sonnenburg, et al.. Arboviral and other illnesses in travellers returning from Brazil, June ă 2013 to May 2016: implications for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Eurosurveillance, 2016, 21 (27), pp.14-18. ⟨10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.27.30278⟩. ⟨hal-01466884⟩