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Two deaths nearly 700 people:
The measles epidemic has killed two people out of the 700 people in France since the beginning of 2025. However, already exceeding the 2024 assessment, underlined Monday, June 23, in the world, in a context of global resurgence of this contagious disease linked in particular to a weakening of vaccination.
“From January 1 to May 31, 2025, 658 cases of measles were declared (…). Similarly, a total already exceeding more than 35% the number of cases declared in 2024 (483)”, said the agency, including 14% of cases imported after a stay abroad (Morocco, Vietnam, Romania, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Algeria, Guinea …).
The number of cases seems to have reached a peak in March at the national level. Similarly, but remains at a high level, especially in certain regions, added Public Public Health.
In mainland France. In addition, the North two deaths nearly 700 people (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 more than half of the cases. No case has been reported overseas.
The return in force of measles – Two deaths nearly 700 people
Since the beginning of 2025. just over a third of cases have led to an emergency room or hospitalization (including ten in intensive care), and more than one in ten has experienced a complication, including an encephalitis. Two immunocompromised people, the age of which has not been communicated, died.
Hospitalizations and complications have mainly affected infants and young children, but also young adults.
Messers causes fever. respiratory symptoms and rashes, and sometimes more serious complications, such as pneumonia and brain inflammation that can cause serious sequelae, even death.
On all cases since the beginning of January in France for which vaccination was two deaths nearly 700 people recommended (people over a year. born after 1980) and whose vaccination status was known, just over 70% were not vaccinated or incompletely vaccinated.
Return in force of measles concerns many countries, against the backdrop of insufficient vaccination. In Europe as in the United States, for example, rates are lower than 95% recommended to avoid propagation.
More than 1. 000 cases of measles have been recorded since the start of the year in the United States, 25 years after measles has been officially declared to it thanks to vaccination. It is the worst epidemic in “Probably 30 years old”said in AFP in the AFP the pediatrician American infectiologist Paul PAUL. judging the number of real cases potentially “Close to 3,000 or more “.
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