Over the past week in the region:

• Continued reports of enterovirus meningitis at Nantes University Hospital;

• With summer temperatures, SOS Médecins continues to see patients for heatstroke and insect bites in Nantes, though without a significant increase;

• This is also the season for plankton blooms, which render mussels unfit for consumption in certain coastal areas (see p. 11). Dinoflagellates, which are usually the cause, trigger a diarrheal syndrome within hours of consumption.