The peak of the epidemic is unusually late. In recent years, he occurred in February.
Le Monde with AFP
The influenza epidemic continues to propagate in France. She has now won almost the entire metropolis, including the Paris region where she resumes after declining at the beginning of the year, watch, Wednesday, March 16, The weekly balance sheet of the public health agency
The past week was marked by a “strong increase in the set of” influenza “indicators” in France, summarize public health France, noting that, now, “all metropolitan areas [are affected by the ] epidemic, except Corsica “. This includes Ile-de-France while it, struck early by the End 2021 epidemic, had experienced a lull at the beginning of the year and was no longer considered in the epidemic phase. She is ironed this week.
less immunized French
Out of the metropolis, Guyana is also struck by the influenza epidemic, but other departments are spared. This flight of influenza is unusually late. In recent years, the peak of the epidemic – measured by the consultation rate in relation to the number of inhabitants – had rather held in February.
The winter 2020-2021 was particularly particular, because of the containment measures taken against CVIV-19. They had, by extension, allowed to block the circulation of many other microbes, such as the influenza virus.
However, the French, less infected than usual, are also less immunized collectively, which has favored a recovery of the epidemic this winter. This remains, as far as the levels observed in 2019-2020, just before the COVID-19, and especially in 2018-2019 where the epidemic had been particularly strong.