In 1999, the prevalence of treated diabetes was 3.2% in the general population and 11.2% among people aged 65 and older living in mainland France. Population aging and the rise in...

Tetanus is a notifiable disease. Mandatory reporting allows for monitoring trends in the incidence of the disease, identifying its key epidemiological characteristics, and assessing the...

Flu vaccination is recommended for vulnerable individuals and, since 1999 in France, for healthcare workers to protect patients, as staff can play a significant role in the spread of the...

At the request of the Directorate General for Health, the Institute for Health Surveillance has established a monitoring system for eye complications that may have occurred following the...

Since September 19, 1996, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and other human subacute spongiform encephalopathies (SSEs), regardless of their cause, have been included on the list of...

The AIDS epidemic among foreign nationals residing in France has been little studied. A report from the Institut de Veille Sanitaire has just been published. This article presents its...

This article is based on a document published in May 1999 by the Directorate General for Health and intended for physicians practicing in regions affected by Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal...

Reporting meningococcal infections allows for the early implementation of preventive measures among contacts of confirmed cases. It also aims to determine the frequency, trends, and key...

The surveillance system for occupational HIV infections among healthcare workers in France, established in 1990, provides data on the number of cases, trends over time, and case...

The EPIBAC network is a network of hospital microbiology laboratories whose objective is to monitor certain community-acquired invasive infections. EPIBAC aims to estimate the incidence...