On August 29, 2001, the Department of Infectious Diseases at the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) was notified by a physician at a Parisian hospital of an outbreak...

The introduction of the hepatitis A virus into a population of non-immune young adults, whose sexual practices facilitate fecal-oral transmission of the virus, represents a situation...

Since the early 1940s, syphilis had been a reportable disease. However, for many years, doctors had stopped reporting cases of syphilis. Consequently, in July 2000, an amendment to the...

In France, a surveillance system for pediatric hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in children under the age of 15 was established in 1996 following a study covering the years 1993–1995. Its...

Shortly after the requirement to report venereal diseases to health authorities was lifted, several venereal disease clinics (DAVs) and clinicians specializing in the management of...

Legionella, a waterborne bacterium, is one of the causative agents of nosocomial pneumonia. Results from mandatory reporting show that 17% of Legionnaires' disease cases in 1999 had...

On February 11, 2000, a physician from the student health promotion department (school physician) reported a suspected outbreak of foodborne illness at a vocational high school to the...

On May 26, 2000, bacterial contamination was detected in the water supply of a section of downtown Strasbourg after a major 60-centimeter-diameter water main had been put back into...

On December 12, 1999, the oil tanker Erika, carrying 28,000 tons of Category 2 heavy fuel oil, sank 55 km south of the Pointe de Penmarc'h and 80 km west of Belle-Ile... As the pollution...

A health risk assessment was conducted by INERIS and RIVM to characterize and quantify the long-term health risks faced by volunteers and professionals exposed to oil from the Erika...