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Air and Health Monitoring Program: 9 Cities. Monitoring of health effects associated with urban air pollution. Phase II. Literature Review
In March 1999, the InVS published the initial results of the Air & Health Surveillance Program – 9 Cities (PSAS-9). This first phase demonstrated the feasibility of bringing together...
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Measles Surveillance in France. Symposium on February 28, 2001, Saint-Maurice
On February 28, 2001, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance organized a workshop on measles surveillance in France, attended by the key partners involved in the control and...
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Salmonella outbreak caused by Salmonella serotype infantis. Île-de-France, September–November 2001
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Risk factors for leptospirosis in mainland France. A case-control study, July 1999–February 2000.
Introduction: In France, vaccination against leptospirosis—limited to the Icterohemorrhagiae serogroup—is recommended for professions considered to be at risk of this infection. In 2000,...
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Cluster of listeriosis cases linked to the consumption of pork tongue in jelly, France, November 1999–February 2000
In France, surveillance of listeriosis is carried out through two complementary systems: genotyping of L. monocytogenes strains by the National Reference Center for Listeria, which...
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Epidemiological mission on the health impacts of Hurricane Mitch in Central America. November 5–December 12, 1998
On October 26, 1998, Hurricane Mitch claimed several thousand lives and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in Central America. Numerous agricultural resources and...
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The Use of the Smallpox Virus as a Biological Weapon: Estimating the Epidemiological Impact and the Role of Vaccination
The World Health Organization declared smallpox eradicated worldwide in 1980, and no new cases have been reported since then. All countries worldwide discontinued smallpox vaccination by...
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Study of Vaccination Coverage During the Preventive Vaccination Campaign Against Meningococcal Type C. Puy-de-Dôme, 2002
On January 11, 2002, the Minister of Health decided to launch a meningococcal C vaccination campaign in the Puy-de-Dôme department, due to the increased incidence of this infection in...
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Measuring Vaccination Coverage in France: An Overview of Tools and Methods in the Year 2000
Monitoring vaccination coverage is a key component of evaluating a vaccination program. At the initiative of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, a steering committee met...
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Tuberculosis Infection and Disease Among Children in the Ile-de-France Region in 1997
Tuberculosis in children provides essential epidemiological information because it always indicates recent transmission. It is therefore important to have effective epidemiological...
