With winter approaching, Covid-19 is not the only disease affecting France.

The bronchiolitis epidemic continues in metropolitan France, in all regions, among infants.

For the time being, little present in metropolitan France, the flu threatens to enter an epidemic phase in Reunion, the health authorities announced on Wednesday.

Rebound in cases of bronchiolitis

In children under two, emergency room visits and bronchiolitis-related hospitalizations rebounded the week of November 14, after a lull earlier this month.

It was only a one-off reduction "linked to school holidays" and All Saints' Day, explains the French public health agency.

Of the 3,609 children under two seen in the emergency room for bronchiolitis last week, 3,189 (88%) were under one year of age and 1,257 (35%) were hospitalized.

Of these, more than 90% were less than one year old.

Common and highly contagious, bronchiolitis causes babies to cough and difficult, fast, and wheezing.

Most of the time benign, it may however require a visit to the emergency room, or even hospitalization.

Reunion Island in the pre-epidemic phase for influenza

The epidemic situation this year is explained by the confinements and the strong application of barrier gestures, helping to block all viruses.

Less exposed, young children were less immune, which raises fears of a stronger epidemic this year.

This phenomenon could also concern other winter viruses, including those of influenza or gastroenteritis.

As such, seasonal flu, the epidemic of which usually spreads later in the year, remains little present in metropolitan France, according to Public Health France, which only mentions a few isolated cases in intensive care.

On the other hand, in the Overseas Territories, Réunion is experiencing a transition to the pre-epidemic phase.

Mayotte, for its part, remains struck by the epidemic, as has already been the case for several weeks.

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