A high fever and symptoms close to the flu followed, after a few days, with a rash covering the whole body with small red spots … measles is uplapping in France, with a hundred cases declared since the beginning of 2025. Two regions, in particular, account for the greatest number of patients: more than 50 cases in Hauts-de-France and 25 En Auvergne-Rhône-Rhône-Rhône According to regional health agencies (ARS).
Faced with this increase in cases, the Ministry of Health has alerted all health professionals on March 7. In this messagethe director general of health, Grégory Emery, calls them to vigilance, because “The epidemiological situation (…) raises fears, in view of the strong contagiousness of the disease, a broader distribution on the national territory in the coming weeks ”. It is, in fact, one of the most contagious diseases in the world, a contaminated person who can infect about twenty around them.
On the ground, the effects of panic are held at a distance. “As the population is rather well immune, we should not have too much epidemic”thus notes François Dubos, chief of the pediatric emergencies at the Lille University Hospital.
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