2024-04-19 10:12:04
“Europe is currently experiencing a resurgence of whooping cough cases with significant epidemics in Croatia, Denmark and the United Kingdom and significant increases in Belgium, Spain and Germany”warned Public Health France yesterday, announcing that France is also affected.
Since the start of 2024, around twenty clusters have been detected in 8 metropolitan regions, compared to 2 for the whole of 2023.
« Whooping cough evolves in cycles of recrudescence every 3 to 5 years”, recalls the public health agency. But the Covid pandemic and exceptional health measures made it possible to avoid the expected rebound in 2021.
SPF, which fears an intensification of bacterial circulation in the coming months, calls for « vigilance » and to the ” sensitization ” Population.
She thus recalled the importance of early vaccination of infants from two months, with boosters every five years, and for pregnant women, from the second trimester of pregnancy. Vaccination for immunocompromised people and healthcare professionals is also strongly recommended.
Dengue fever in Latin America
Otherwise, Public Health France recalled in its annual report that the triple influenza-covid-bronchiolitis epidemic was less virulent than last year, producing an impact ” lower “ on community medicine and hospitals.
Acute gastroenteritis follows the same course, with “proportion of consultations (…) and emergency visits for GEA equivalent to the previous season”.
Internationally, the cholera epidemic is intensifying in the Comoros, where 336 new ones were detected in four days. Eight deaths were recorded, according to France Info Overseas.
Cholera threatens neighboring Mayotte, where health authorities recently mandated agents to travel through neighborhoods spraying insecticides.
Dengue fever continues to ravage Latin America and the Caribbean where more than 3.5 million cases and a thousand deaths have been recorded in the region since the start of 2024, according to the Pan American Health Organization.
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The epidemic is particularly virulent in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, which represent 92% of all cases and 87% of deaths, according to the WHO.
The cause in particular is the high temperatures caused by the El Niño climatic phenomenon since mid-2023.
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