Introduction: In France, surveillance of meningococcal infections (MI) is based on mandatory case reporting. In 1989–1990, the completeness of mandatory reporting was estimated at 51%...

Introduction: In France, vaccination against leptospirosis—limited to the Icterohemorrhagiae serogroup—is recommended for professions considered to be at risk of this infection. In 2000,...

General practitioners in Corrèze have drawn the attention of health authorities to what they consider to be a growing number of respiratory and skin conditions among their patients since...

Children are particularly susceptible to lead poisoning. Several environmental sources can contribute to their exposure. Since 1985, the degradation of paints used in homes until 1948...

The resumption since 1993 of the downward trend in tuberculosis incidence in France calls for a reassessment of the relevance of the BCG vaccination policy. Indeed, the available...

On February 28, 2001, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance organized a workshop on measles surveillance in France, attended by the key partners involved in the control and...

Across the 51 countries of the WHO European Region, the rate of new HIV diagnoses remains stable in Western Europe (54.9 cases per million population in 2001) and Central Europe (7 to 10...

Combination therapies delay progression to AIDS, and patients coinfected with HIV and HCV now develop serious HCV-related complications. For the first time, a study provides a national...

While in 2001, one-third of the world’s population was still infected with the tuberculosis bacillus, 95% of cases occurred in the poorest countries on the planet. Yet, since the...

The World Health Organization declared smallpox eradicated worldwide in 1980, and no new cases have been reported since then. All countries worldwide discontinued smallpox vaccination by...