On July 28, 2009, an outbreak of clustered influenza cases at a vacation center in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region was reported to the Southern Regional Office of the French Institute...

Hepatitis C is a significant public health issue in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. Little epidemiological data is available, particularly regarding genotypes 4, 5, and 6. Our objective...

In June 2009, the first cluster of influenza A(H1N1)2009 cases with no history of travel occurred in France at a middle school on the outskirts of Toulouse. A total of 15 cases were...

Introduction: Increases in asthma attacks have been sporadically reported during periods of high pollen counts, particularly following thunderstorms. These phenomena are poorly...

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease affecting humans in the temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere. The bacteria responsible belong to the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu...

Introduction: The prevalence of tick-borne diseases is poorly understood in Franche-Comté. The primary objective of this first regional study was to estimate the incidence of Lyme...

Introduction: The chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arbovirus that is endemic and epidemic in the intertropical zone. It is transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes, such as Ae....

Introduction: In 2010, a surveillance and reporting system for outbreaks of acute respiratory infections (ARI) was proposed to all nursing homes (Ehpad) in the Pays de la Loire region to...

Introduction: Neonatal hearing screening (NHS) was launched as a public health program in 2015 in the Rhône-Alpes region, with the goal of detecting unilateral and bilateral hearing...

In France, as in other industrialized countries, the annual incidence of typhoid fever has become very low (0.15 per 100,000 in metropolitan France); on average, 80 cases of typhoid...