Health Monitoring in Normandy. Update as of January 24, 2024.

Key Points

Acute Gastroenteritis

  • Activity remains generally high overall, particularly among those under 15, while staying close to levels seen in previous years.

  • The number of emergency room visits is declining among those over 15 and stable among those under 15.

  • In private practice (SOS Médecins), the number of visits has decreased across all age groups.

Influenza

  • The region has entered the epidemic phase.

  • After a decline during the school vacation period, indicators are rising sharply (SOS Médecins, hospital virology laboratories) or slightly (emergency room visits and hospitalizations following emergency room visits).

  • The AH1N1 subtype is predominant among subtyped positive samples at the hospital.

Pneumonia

  • Indicators continue to decline as in the previous week (visits to emergency rooms and SOS Médecins calls among those under 15).

  • However, they remain at high levels.

  • The positivity rate for Mycoplasma pneumoniae in hospital specimens is also decreasing.

Bronchiolitis

  • Normandy has entered the non-epidemic phase with a continuing decline in indicators, confirming the waning of the epidemic wave.

  • The positivity rate in hospital specimens is also decreasing.

COVID-19

  • All indicators have stabilized at a low level (emergency room visits, SOS Médecins consultations, and testing).

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