two dead and more than 650 cases since January, according to Public Health France – Liberation

The fears of a measles resurgence. Nevertheless, displayed by the health authorities at the start of the year, are confirmed by more precise figures. Furthermore, Between January 1 and May 31, 658 people contracted this ultra-contact disease in France; Two died. Therefore, The total «[dépasse] Already more than 35 % the number of cases declared in 2024 (483) »reported Public Health. Consequently, France in its bulletin published on June 23. Similarly, Knowing that this data was already significantly superior to the previous year.

The epidemic peak seems to have been reached in March, but remains at a high level. Nevertheless, In mainland France. Furthermore, the North (117 cases), the Bouches-du-Rhône (50 cases), Isère and Haute-Savoie (39 cases each), Hérault (27 cases), Paris (25 cases), Seine-Saint-Denis (22 cases), Pas-de-Calais (22 cases), Val-d’Oise (20 cases) concentrated two dead more than 650 more than half of the cases. For example, No case has been reported overseas.

“We often take measles for a benign child’s illness, wrongly. Nevertheless, It must be taken seriously “insisted at the start of the year with Liberty Julia Dina. Consequently, head of the national reference center for measles, rubella and mumps. And for good reason. If it owes its name to these very characteristic red spots which it causes on the skin. measles also causes fever, cough, cold or even conjunctivitis. And complications in 30 % of cases: more. less serious, they can go, in certain rarer situations, up to pulmonary or even neurological damage. Also. since the beginning of January, a little more than a third of cases have led to an emergency room or hospitalization (including ten in intensive care), and more than one in 10 has experienced a complication, including an two dead more than 650 encephalitis. Hospitalized people were mainly infants, young children, and young adults. The two dead were immunocompromised – their age was however not communicated.

People at risk are essentially children under 1 year old, immunocompromised people and pregnant women. And the disease is especially very contagious: a person infected with measles can contaminate on average 15 to 20. – when this ratio is six for a chickenpox. Hence the alerts launched by the French health authorities in early March, who called health professionals to vigilance.

The return in force of measles is found in many countries, against the backdrop of an insufficient vaccination coverage. Thus. 14 % of the cases raised in France since January have been imported, that is to say contracted one after a stay abroad (Morocco, Vietnam, Romania, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Algeria, Guinea …)-which will lead to the two dead more than 650 contamination of unprotected people. The European Center for Disease Controls also reports an resurgence – more than 22. 000 cases were reported between May 1, 2024 and April 30, 2025 in 30 European countries. The United States is another striking example: more than 1. 000 patients have been identified there since the beginning of the year, the worst epidemic in “Probably 30 years” declared in early May to AFP the pediatrician infectiologist American Paul provides, judging the number of real cases potentially “Close to 3,000 or more”. And yet, the disease had been officially declared eradicated on American soil 25 years ago, thanks to the vaccines.

Public health France therefore calls for a “Strengthening vaccination catch -up actions”, “Crucial in this period”. Because on all cases since the beginning of January for which vaccination was recommended (people over a year. born after 1980) and whose vaccination two dead more than 650 status was known, just over 70 % were not vaccinated or incompletely. In France, in 2022, 92.8 % of 24 -month -old children had full vaccination coverage – the data is older for the oldest. Correct cover. But still below the 95 % threshold 2 by the WHO to avoid its spread.