Health Monitoring in Brittany. Update as of July 18, 2024.

Key Points

COVID-19

  • Resurgence of the epidemic, stability in monitored indicators.

Pneumonia

  • Pneumonia activity remains higher than the values typically observed for this time of year among adults.

Extreme heat, heat wave

  • Brittany has been under a green heat wave alert since the start of the seasonal monitoring period.

Gastroenteritis and acute diarrhea

  • Moderate activity. The indicators being monitored are close to the averages for the same period in recent seasons.

Asthma

  • Increased use of outpatient and hospital emergency services, particularly among those aged 5–14 and 15–74.

Allergies

  • Increase in the number of emergency room visits for allergies in S28 (103 visits compared to 82 in S27, a 26% increase), affecting those under 75 years of age.

  • The number of SOS Médecins consultations remained stable.

Chickenpox

  • Downward trend in the number of emergency room visits since early May.

  • The number of SOS Médecins consultations remained stable.

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