Measles, returned throughout the world, while vaccination is weakening, has killed two people in more than 800 people in France since the beginning of 2025, a level much higher than 2024, but the epidemic follows a decreasing slope, said Thursday, September 11, September 11.
Since January 1, 828 measles cases have been declared (+23 new cases in August), a level higher than the total of the year 2024 (483), according to provisional data. However, this impulse of the cases is in the “decomposition phase” since May, the agency adds. Two immunocompromised people, whose age has not communicated, died, SPF said in June.
At least one case in 70 departments since the beginning of the year
DNSHORS, a very contagious disease, cause fever, respiratory symptoms and eruptions, and in some cases more serious complications, such as pneumonia and cerebral inflammation that can cause serious sequelae and death.
Since the beginning of 2025, just over a third of the cases have led an emergency or hospitalization (including twelve in intensive care), and more than one in ten has experienced a complication, including encephalitis. Hospitalizations and complications have mainly affected babies and young children, but also young adults.
Since the beginning of the year, 70 departments have brought at least one case. The five most affected departments are the north, the Bouches-Du-Rhône, Aude, Haute-Savoie and Isère.
In all cases since the beginning of January, for which vaccination was recommended (people over one year and born after 1980) and whose vaccination status was known, 65% was not vaccinated or vaccinated incompletely.
The return return of measles refers to many countries, in the context of insufficient vaccination. In Europe, as in the United States, for example, rates are less than 95% recommended by the World Health Organization to guarantee sufficient collective immunity.
The situation, unprecedented for several decades, is significantly feeds for misinformation in vaccines from the COVID-19 pandemic and distrust of the health authorities.
In the United States, which has been experiencing its worst measles epidemic for more than 30 years, Health Minister Robert Kennedy JR is accused of aggravating the situation, in particular by transmitting a false theory that establishes a link between the ROR (measles vaccine, papers and rubella) and autism.
In the United Kingdom, the death of a child in July revived the calls of health authorities to vaccinate the youngest.
Source: BFM TV
