Approximately 140,000 employees of the EDF and GDF Suez groups are monitored by their companies’ occupational health services. In 2007, a working group of about a dozen physicians sought...

Introduction - Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are the leading occupational disease (OD) compensated by the general Social Security system. Statistics from the occupational disease...

The data presented here pertain to cases of active tuberculosis reported in France during 2010. The number of tuberculosis cases reported in 2010 was 5,187 (8.1 per 100,000),...

Introduction. The multi-puncture BCG vaccine was withdrawn from the market in 2006, and the mandatory vaccination requirement was replaced in 2007 by a strong recommendation for...

Resistance to antituberculosis drugs emerged as soon as they were first used. Currently, in France, the main risk factor for resistance remains having previously received...

Pediatric tuberculosis, a disease that still affects children in Europe today, deserves special attention. In 2010, 3,035 cases of pediatric tuberculosis (ages 0–14) were reported, with...

Among patients with tuberculosis who were born abroad, the average time from their most recent stay abroad to the onset of tuberculosis is less than 4 years, whereas the time from their...

Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of infections caused by Neisseria gonorrheae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Treponema pallidum in the New Caledonian population aged 18 to 49 years...

This article presents surveillance data on HIV infection and AIDS in France for 2012, based on mandatory reporting of HIV and AIDS and virological surveillance, as well as trends since...