Key Points

• Decrease in consultations for acute respiratory infections in private practice during week 21

• Low number of consultations for flu-like illness, with cases concentrated mainly in the Oyapock area over the past two weeks

• Slight increase in activity in emergency departments for influenza-like illness in week 21

• No positive results among the 17 samples tested for influenza in private practice over the past 3 weeks

• Circulating influenza viruses: A/H3N2 (predominant) and A/H1N1pdm09

• No new severe cases admitted to intensive care

French Guiana has been in the post-epidemic phase of the flu since late March (week 2022-12). Over the past three weeks, the situation has remained generally calm. If this trend continues and provided that no other influenza virus begins to circulate in the territory, the end of the seasonal flu epidemic could be announced in the next epidemiological update.