Key Points

Whooping Cough

• An increase in pertussis cases has been observed in France and Europe over the past few months. A call for vigilance has been issued. In Brittany, an increase in visits to hospital emergency rooms and calls to SOS Médecins was observed in April and May. An update will be provided at the end of June.

Extreme heat, heat wave

• Oscour®: low indicators, close to previous years’ values for this period excluding heat waves.

• SOS Médecins: low indicators, close to previous years’ values for this period excluding heat waves.

Pneumonia

• Pneumonia activity remains higher than the values typically observed for this time of year. For those under 15, indicators are close to the levels observed during the same period in previous seasons.