Reunion Island prepared for possible Zika virus emergence, 2016

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Larrieu, S. | Filleul, L. | Reilhes, O. | Jaffar-Bandjee, M. | Ă Dumont, C. | Abossolo, T. | Thebault, H. | Brottet, E. | Pages, Ă F. | Vilain, P. | Leparc-Goffart, I. | Antok, E. | Vandroux, D. Ă | Poubeau, P. | Moiton, M. | von Théobald, Peter | Chieze, F. | Ă Gallay, A. | de Valk, H. | Bourdillon, F.

Edité par CCSD ; European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control -

International audience. Zika virus (ZIKV) has recently spread widely and turned into a major ă international public health threat. Reunion appears to offer conditions ă particularly favourable to its emergence and therefore prepared to face ă possible introduction of the virus. We designed a scaled surveillance ă and response system with specific objectives, methods and measures for ă various epidemiological phases including a potential epidemic. Several ă tools were developed in order to (i) detect individual cases (including ă a large information campaign on the disease and suspicion criteria), ă (ii) monitor an outbreak through several complementary systems allowing ă to monitor trends in disease occurrence and geographic spread and (iii) ă detect severe forms of the disease in collaboration with hospital ă clinicians. We put the emphasis on detecting the first cases in order to ă contain the spread of the virus as much as possible and try to avoid ă progress towards an epidemic. Our two main strengths are a powerful ă vector control team, and a close collaboration between clinicians, ă virologists, epidemiologists, entomologists and public health ă authorities. Our planned surveillance system could be relevant to Europe ă and island settings threatened by Zika virus all over the world.

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