On December 2, 1998, the National Public Health Network (RNSP) was informed by the National Reference Center for Salmonella and Shigella (CNRSS) of an increase, during the first half of...

This update follows BEH No. 19/2000 of May 9, 2000, and outlines the main developments since that date. Following the occurrence of cases of serogroup W135 meningococcal infection among...

Since 1986, whooping cough has no longer been included on the list of reportable diseases. A pediatric hospital "sentinel" network (RENACOQ) was established in April 1996, following the...

Due to an error in Table 1 of BEH 25/2000 (page 107), published on June 20, 2000, we are publishing here the corrected table, which supersedes the previous one.

Since April 1998, the hospital administration has conducted a quarterly survey on treatments for chronic hepatitis C initiated in approximately 100 hospital departments with significant...

Several recent epidemiological studies have demonstrated that urban air pollution has short-term effects on both mortality and morbidity, even at current ambient pollution levels. These...

Surveillance of Legionnaires' disease in France is primarily based on a mandatory reporting system. The system, which has been in place since 1987, was improved through various measures...

On April 6, 2000, the National Reference Center for Meningococci (C.N.R.M.) alerted the DGS to the occurrence in France of two cases of meningococcal infection of serogroup W135 among...

In the introduction, the authors describe the procedures and quality of the surveillance systems for outbreaks of foodborne illness in France. In 2001, 483 reports of foodborne illness...