It was the last region of metropolitan France to be almost spared: Corsica has switched to "epidemic phase" of bronchiolitis, announced Public Health France.
Before her, Brittany was the last continental bastion to have succumbed.
Common and highly contagious, bronchiolitis causes babies to cough and difficult, rapid, wheezing.
Most of the time benign, it may however require a visit to the emergency room, or even hospitalization.
In children under 2 years of age, the main age group struck by bronchiolitis, the indicators remain at a "high level", specifies the agency, which for several weeks had reported a strong increase.
During the week of November 1, among the 4,100 children under two years of age seen in the emergency room for bronchiolitis, 3,652 (89%) were under one year of age and 1,427 (35%) were hospitalized.
Of the children hospitalized, 1,331 (93%) were under one year of age.
Last winter, confinements and anti-Covid barrier gestures helped block all viruses, including RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), responsible for bronchiolitis.
The children were less infected than usual and therefore have less collective immunity, raising fears of a stronger epidemic this year.
To a lesser extent, since the immune systems of adults are better armed and illness is only a sign of submersion of this system, other viruses such as influenza or gastroenteritis could experience an epidemic.
Public Health France is also monitoring seasonal influenza, for which the vaccination campaign has been launched for a few weeks.
For now, the disease is limited to "sporadic cases", according to the agency, which reports a single case admitted to critical care in hospital.
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