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Preliminary Assessment of Strategies for Controlling an Influenza Pandemic
During the 20th century, there were three pandemics, the most recent of which occurred in 1968. Pandemics are caused by the circulation of a new influenza virus and are accompanied by...
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Estimating the number of HCV transmissions from healthcare workers to patients and evaluating screening strategies for healthcare workers in France, 2005–2020.
Transmission of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) from a healthcare worker who is a carrier of the virus to a patient has been observed and demonstrated on several occasions during surgical...
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Cluster of Cyclopora gastrointestinal infections following travel to Indonesia
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Cholera cases imported into mainland France from 1973 to 2005
Travel patterns and travelers’ vulnerability are changing: an increasing number of trips, travel at both ends of the age spectrum, and tourism involving close contact with local...
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Investigations into Cases of Neuromeningeal Listeriosis: A Review of 17 Months of Operations (August 2001–December 2002)
Surveillance of listeriosis in France is carried out through mandatory reporting (DO) and the National Reference Center (CNR) for Listeria. Each reported case is interviewed using a...
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Lead poisoning in children: A New Approach to Monitoring
The authors point out that even low levels of lead exposure can affect a child’s psychomotor development. Young children are particularly at risk because they ingest lead more...
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Socio-medical trajectories of people from sub-Saharan Africa living with HIV who received care in hospitals in the Île-de-France region, 2002
The incidence of AIDS declined significantly in France starting in 1996, and then at a slower rate thereafter, thanks to new treatment strategies. This decline was less pronounced...
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Cases of tuberculosis reported in France in 2002
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Surveillance of Syphilis in Metropolitan France, 2000–2002
Although syphilis has been a reportable disease since the 1940s, it was rarely reported by physicians. An amendment to the Public Health Code lifted the requirement to report sexually...
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Rubella in Pregnant Women and Newborns in Metropolitan France in 2002: Data from the Rénarub Network
The Rénarub network is the primary source of information on the epidemiological situation of rubella in France. It brings together clinical laboratories that perform rubella IgM...
