An analysis of activity data from the CDAGs in 1998 and 1999 revealed an increase in the proportion of positive HIV diagnoses in the Île-de-France region. In light of these results, the...

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...

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...

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

On May 25, 2000, the manager of the SODEXHO restaurant at the Cité Administrative in Strasbourg and the Health and Environment Department of the Bas-Rhin DDASS noticed a suspicious taste...

In 1998, during a radiation survey of a building that had housed a sales office for a company manufacturing items containing radium, the OPRI detected dose rates of several μSv/h in the...

In November 1997, a resident of the town of Gaillon (Eure) reported to the Eure Department of Social Affairs (DDASS) that a family member had been diagnosed with leukemia and expressed...

Lyme disease, or Lyme borreliosis, is a zoonosis found throughout the Northern Hemisphere. It is by far the most common tick-borne infection in Europe. The incidence of the disease...

In late November 1999, the Institute for Public Health Surveillance was notified by the National Reference Center for Salmonella and Shigella of an increase in human isolates of...