Paris, April 20, 2025 (AFP) - Reunion hospital boss urges reinforcements amid chikungunya outbreak

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2025-04-20

The head of the hospital service on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion on Sunday called for medical reinforcements to cope with an epidemic of the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease. "We are really stretched to our limits," Lionel Calenge told the RMC radio station. "Epidemiologists predicted the epidemic peak would hit in mid-April, and here we are." His appeal went out a day before French President Emmanuel Macron was to embark on a fi......

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