It’s a “triple epidemic” facing caregivers at the end of the year. The flu epidemic has spread in recent days in France while that of bronchiolitis, which mainly affects babies, has remained at a particularly high level, the health authorities announced this Wednesday, in a context also marked by a ninth wave of covid-19.
The flu epidemic, which broke out at the end of November in mainland France, has won more than half with “nine regions in the epidemic phase”, according to the weekly report of Public Health France.
The regions in question are now: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Brittany, Centre-Val de Loire, Grand Est, Île-de-France, Hauts-de-France, Normandy, Provence-Alpes-Côte d ‘ Azur and, overseas, Martinique, Mayotte and Réunion.
The last few days have been marked by a jump in contaminations and a “very strong increase in hospitalizations, particularly among people over 65,” Public Health France stressed.
An unprecedented bronchiolitis epidemic
Le déclenchement de l’epidémie de grippe, plutôt précoce this année, vient mettre à l’épreuve a système de santé éprouvé par les vagues récurringes de Covid, currently en pleine reprise, et, chez les bébés, une epidémie de bronchiolite without precedent after a dozen years.
The latter continued last week with a persistent increase in hospitalizations, according to weekly figures from Public Health France.
The peak, despite the hopes of some pediatricians, has not yet been reached, although the progression of hospitalizations is slowing markedly and gives hope of a plateau in the near future. Pour l’heure, à près de 3000 hospitalizations hebdomadaires en métropole, leur niveau reste “très élevé”, a souligné l’agence sanitaire, qui remarque néanmoins a début de recul de l’épidémie dans certaines régions, comme l’Île-de -France.
Source: BFM TV
