Key Points

Asthma

A national update is available as of September 27. In Brittany, activity levels remain very high in both community and hospital emergency departments, exceeding seasonal averages. There has been a continued increase in SOS Médecins consultations and emergency department visits among those aged 15–75 and 5–15, and a decrease among children under 5.This coincides with a sharp increase in the circulation of rhinoviruses and enteroviruses identified in respiratory samples analyzed at the virology laboratories of the Brest University Hospital and the Rennes University Hospital.

ENT Conditions

Continued increases in cases (including nasopharyngitis and otitis) (data not shown).

Notifiable diseases

Measles outbreak in France. Surveillance data updated as of September 25, 2017.

Hepatitis A in France and Europe. Status update as of September 11, 2017.