The city of Marseille is grappling with two simultaneous health challenges. In addition to the repatriation and quarantine of hundreds of French nationals evacuated from China due to the coronavirus epidemic, another could affect the second largest city in France.
In a press release sent this Saturday and released by 20 minutes, the Regional Health Agency reports that 13 people working on the same shipyard in Marseille have contracted “pneumococcal pneumonia”. This disease, which is transmitted “during close contact and prolonged for an hour”, can cause pulmonary infections and ENT, but can take, “for 10 to 30% of patients”, “more forms severe invasive infections “.
Never seen in 25 years
As of Monday, a vast vaccination campaign for 4,000 shipyard workers will be implemented to prevent the spread of the disease. In total, fifteen teams are mobilized, which makes it an operation of exceptional scale, which must take place until Tuesday.
As recalled RTL, clustered cases like this have not been seen in 25 years. There are about fifty patients, 13 of whom carry pneumococcus.
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