Martinique and Guadeloupe continue to suffer from environmental pollution caused by chlordecone, an organochlorine insecticide used in banana plantations from 1973 to 1993. The...

Currently, vaccination coverage among young children is estimated based on 24-month health certificates. While this data source provides satisfactory estimates, it remains slow to...

The 24-month health certificate is the primary tool for estimating vaccination coverage among young children. Until 2004, county councils reported aggregated data; since 2004, they have...

The objective of this study was to calibrate the national database of short-stay hospitalizations (PMSI MCO) for the surveillance of hospitalized myocardial infarctions. To this end, the...

Infant botulism is caused by the ingestion of Clostridium botulinum spores and affects newborns and infants under 12 months of age. The spores multiply and produce botulinum toxin in the...

The findings of epidemiological studies over the past two decades have completely transformed our understanding of the impact of acute and chronic exposure to air pollutants—particularly...

Introduction - An outbreak of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) occurs every winter in France and accounts for 700,000 to 3.7 million visits to primary care physicians. Here we present an...

Between 2006 and 2008, 3,127 outbreaks of foodborne illness were reported to health authorities in France. These outbreaks affected 33,404 people, of whom 2,302 were hospitalized and 15...

Introduction - For more than twenty years, the annual incidence rate of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in France has ranged between 1 and 2 cases per 105 inhabitants. Methods -...