Salmonellosis is the most significant foodborne bacterial infection in terms of its impact on morbidity and mortality in humans. Surveillance of salmonellosis cases by the National...

According to Météo-France, the summer of 2003 was the hottest in 53 years in terms of both maximum and, importantly, minimum temperatures. Furthermore, weather conditions contributed to...

This report presents the first national surveillance results for nosocomial bacteremia in France. In 2002, 268 healthcare facilities participated in the French surveillance network for...

A national surveillance network for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) was established in France in the early 1990s with two objectives: to gain a better understanding of the incidence and...

The SARS pandemic, which emerged in Asia in 2003, spread rapidly to thirty countries before subsiding within three months, thanks to drastic prevention and control measures. In France,...

The Gay Barometer, a survey of gay men who frequent gay meeting places, was launched in Paris in 2000 at the initiative of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance and the...

Between July 1999 and December 2003, the clinical management of individuals exposed to HIV was the subject of a national evaluation, coordinated by the French Institute for Public Health...

The French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) aims to establish a sentinel network of private laboratory practitioners to continuously monitor antibiotic susceptibility in...

In France, an analysis of asthma mortality trends between 1970 and 1990 showed an increase through the mid-1980s, followed by a decline. Among women, however, age-standardized death...

Invasive meningococcal infections (IMIs) are serious infections that most often affect young people who appear to be in good health. In France, the majority of cases occur sporadically....