According to the latest weekly assessment of the authorities, the two epidemics continue to retreat in recent days.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
Flu and bronchiolitis epidemics that have been circulating in France for several weeks and have undergone the health system continue to calm down.
According to The latest public health figures France , although it still strikes the whole of the metropolis, The influenza epidemic has continued its decline in recent days in France. Last week was marked by a “decrease in influenza indicators in all age groups and in all metropolitan regions”, summarizes the public health agency in its weekly balance sheet. The bronchiolitis epidemic also fell to the point of ending in the Paris region, summed up on Wednesday January 18 Public health France .
The flu is however always at an epidemic stage throughout the metropolis, as well as most of the overseas territories, and its “severity” characterizes it this season. “A resumption of increase in influenza indicators is still possible in the coming weeks,” warns the agency, despite the context of lull on the front of the various winter epidemics in France.
A end of the year marked by a triple epidemic
The end of 2022 was, in fact, marked by the conjunction of three epidemics: that of COVVI-19, that of the flu, which turned out to be quite early, and, in infants, that of bronchiolitis , which has given rise to unprecedented hospitalizations for ten years.
The Covid-19 current wave now declines clearly, as well as that of bronchiolitis, to the point that Ile-de-France is no longer struck by this epidemic. Last week was marked by a “decline in the bronchiolitis epidemic in the majority of regions in mainland France”, underlines Public Health France.
Several regions should soon join Île-de-France, because they are already in the so-called “possesemic” phase. This is the case of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Brittany, Center-Val de Loire, Grand-Est, Hauts-de-France and Occitanie. Overseas, Guyana is in the same situation, while the epidemic continues at Guadeloupe, Martinique and Mayotte.