As part of its surveillance and vector control mission, the “Agence Régionale de Santé Nouvelle-Aquitaine” (ARS) confirmed, on October 18, 2022 a case of Arbovirosis in a person who had not left metropolitan France for the period before the appearance of the first signs of the disease. It was therefore an indigenous case.
The results of the first sample had not made it possible to define, with certainty, the nature of the infection. To be sure, a second sample was taken on October 11, 2022 from the infected person and sent to the “National Reference Center for Arboviruses” in Marseille (CNR Marseille). The latter confirmed, on November 4, that it was a Usutu Virus infection.
