Epidemiological Surveillance in the Pays de la Loire Region. Update as of December 7, 2011.

Over the past week in the region:

The bronchiolitis outbreak continues:

- with the number of bronchiolitis diagnoses continuing to rise, according to SOS Médecins (12% of diagnoses in children under 2 years old),- with both university hospitals reporting a persistently high number of RSV isolates, and at Nantes University Hospital, 38% of emergency department visits for bronchiolitis involved children under two years of age, - with, at the regional level, a significant impact on emergency department visits among children under one year of age (more than 600 visits across the region’s 7 sentinel hospitals).

No flu activity yet, nor an increase in the number of gastroenteritis cases.

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