[Société] Health scandal: Twelve children disabled by chik

Between 2005 and 2006, a dozen mothers affected by the chikungunya virus gave birth to severely disabled children. All were infected when the authorities considered the disease to be mild and temporary. Today adolescents, children have suffered severe neurological consequences.

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Louis (*) is 14 years old. He can neither read nor write. And he always seems to be looking into space. “It’s because of a squint in both eyes. All of these pathologies are due to chikungunya“, says his mother, bitterly. So when he goes to the CHU de Saint-Pierre, the teenager is always stressed. In front of the doctors, he doesn’t say a word. Louis is of college age, but these learning disabilities force him to take courses at a special institute …

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