Key Points 

Malaria

• The number of malaria cases recorded in the region remained low and stable over the past two weeks, with 4 cases reported (1 in Week 31 and 3 in Week 32, provisional data) compared to a total of 5 in Weeks 29 and 30. Of these 4 cases—all caused by P. vivax—none were relapses. Since the beginning of the year, 140 cases of malaria have been recorded, including 9 in June, 9 in July, and 3 in August. Over the past three months, most infections occurred in gold-mining areas in the Savanes sector.

Bronchiolitis

• The low number of patient visits at primary care centers (CDPS) and local hospitals, as well as in the emergency departments of the three University Hospital (CHU) sites, combined with the small number of biological samples testing positive for RSV, confirms that the bronchiolitis epidemic in the region has ended.

Flu-like illness

• Influenza activity was low in the region. A few Influenza B viruses are currently circulating in French Guiana.

COVID-19 

• SARS-CoV-2 activity remained low.

Diarrhea

• Diarrhea activity was decreasing and low in the territory.