Travel medicine is a relatively new field whose main objectives are to inform travelers about the risks of health problems during stays abroad—primarily in tropical regions—to ensure...

In France, little data on nosocomial infections is available for long-term care settings. Therefore, a prevalence study was conducted in 1993 in several Parisian hospitals within the...

Doctors in Millau, having noted an unusually high number of mumps cases since January 1995 and surprised by the significant proportion of cases among vaccinated individuals, alerted the...

To determine the percentage of 6-year-olds vaccinated against rubella in France, a survey was conducted among 10,321 students born in 1979 by school health personnel. The survey...

Since November 1984, the computer-based surveillance and information network for communicable diseases established by the DGS and INSERM has been monitoring measles, among other...

Allergic conditions, and bronchial asthma in particular, appear to be more common in industrialized countries, and the role of air pollution has been suggested. A survey was conducted in...

The number of tetanus cases remains high in France, with 124 cases in 1985 compared to 115 in 1984. Of these 124 cases, 66 (53%) were investigated. Women are most commonly affected (68%...

658 cases of typhoid fever were reported in 1985; 356 were investigated, and of these, 200 were confirmed. 45% of the cases occurred in children (aged 15 or younger). 61.5% of the cases...

The AIDS surveillance network established in 1982 by the DGS had recorded 859 cases as of June 30, 1986. For the second quarter of 1986, 13 new cases per week were reported, compared to...