A study was conducted in July 1997 among clinicians reporting AIDS cases to examine their experience and attitudes toward the management of recent HIV exposures. The study concluded that...

The purpose of this article is to highlight recent trends in AIDS between January 1998 and June 2000: a marked slowdown in the decline of new AIDS cases and deaths, the predominance of...

Since 1987, surveillance of Legionnaires' disease in France has been based primarily on a mandatory reporting system. Surveillance was strengthened in 1997 through an interactive system...

Systemic meningococcal infection (meningococcal meningitis or meningococcemia) is a rare disease in France that primarily affects children; its severity lies in the fact that it is fatal...

The success of the global eradication of smallpox, certified in 1980, encouraged the World Health Organization to launch the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988. At that time,...

The data presented here are provisional, based solely on the analysis of cases diagnosed through December 31, 1999. Updated data will be published in November 2000, incorporating reports...

In the United States and several European countries, including France, there has been an increase in Salmonella Typhimurium infections since the mid-1990s, associated with the emergence...

France’s HIV testing policy is based on personal responsibility and voluntary testing. Anonymous and free HIV testing clinics (CDAG) were established in 1988 in every department, within...

This editorial addresses human salmonellosis. These cases occur as sporadic infections, foodborne illness outbreaks, or community-wide epidemics. For certain serotypes, particularly...