Santé Publique France published, this Thursday, January 2, its latest bulletin concerning acute respiratory infections (ARI) in France, over the period of the last week of 2024, from December 23 to 29.
Flu: the epidemic is “intensifying”
Thus, Brittany, like the rest of France, was still in the red, in the epidemic phase. With the key being “the continuation of the sharp increase in all flu indicators in the city and in hospitals in all age groups”. The organization is categorical: “the flu epidemic is intensifying”. Furthermore, Martinique was also in an epidemic, and Guadeloupe and Guyana were in a pre-epidemic.
Bronchiolitis: the epidemic peak past?
On the other hand, on the bronchiolitis side, things got better. Île-de-France is moving into the post-epidemic phase in particular. Public Health France also reveals a “decrease in the majority of indicators”, and this “in town and in hospitals in week 52, for the second consecutive week, confirming the passage of the epidemic peak occurring in week 50 in France” . Even if eleven regions, including Brittany, but also the Antilles, Mayotte and Guyana were still in the epidemic phase. And that Corsica and Reunion had moved into the pre-epidemic phase.
The fact remains that overall, “activity linked to acute respiratory infections was clearly increasing in community medicine and in hospitals across all age groups”. And that “hospitalizations after visits to the emergency room particularly concerned those aged 65 and over (63% of hospitalizations for ARI)”.
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