Tahiti, January 25, 2023 – The latest health surveillance bulletin released on Wednesday confirms the ongoing flu epidemic in fenua, with a second death and six people hospitalized last week.
The data collected by the health watch office confirms the current flu epidemic in Polynesia, announces the last weekly surveillance bulletin released on Wednesday. The consultation rate for “sudden onset fevers, respiratory or ENT sign, body aches, asthenia and headaches” has increased sharply over the past week. A trend that has been confirmed since the end of 2022 for patients reporting flu-like symptoms, confirms the bulletin. Hospital data also confirms the ongoing influenza A epidemic. Over the past week, six people with influenza have been hospitalized and one patient with risk factors and multiple comorbidities died in hospital. This is the second death since the start of the epidemic. Local authorities say “very vigilant to the evolution of the flu situation in French Polynesia” and recommend vaccination and barrier gestures to prevent the epidemic.