Venereal syphilis, which has been on the decline for the past twenty years in developed countries, has reached low incidence rates of less than 5 per 100,000. Some of these countries,...

Mandatory reporting (MR) of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) serves two purposes: to initiate prophylaxis among contacts of a case and to study the characteristics of the disease....

On February 22, 2002, the National Legionella Reference Center (CNR) reported to the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) that the laboratory at the Nice Hospital...

During the summer of 2000, cases of West Nile virus (WNV)-associated encephalitis were identified in horses in the Montpellier region. Very quickly, surveillance was established to...

Between January 21 and February 16, 2000, the occurrence of three cases of meningococcal meningitis of the antigenic serotype B:15: P1-7,16 and one suspected case in a town of 12,000...

The French data primarily used to date to measure the short-term effects of air pollution on human health have been mortality or hospital admission data. Another health indicator,...

On August 29, 2001, the Department of Infectious Diseases at the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) was notified by a physician at a Parisian hospital of an outbreak...

The introduction of the hepatitis A virus into a population of non-immune young adults, whose sexual practices facilitate fecal-oral transmission of the virus, represents a situation...

Since the early 1940s, syphilis had been a reportable disease. However, for many years, doctors had stopped reporting cases of syphilis. Consequently, in July 2000, an amendment to the...

In France, a surveillance system for pediatric hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in children under the age of 15 was established in 1996 following a study covering the years 1993–1995. Its...