Objectives: Surveillance of communicable infectious diseases requires close collaboration among clinicians, epidemiologists, and biologists to prevent any risk of an epidemic,...

Despite having achieved very high vaccination coverage rates for over 30 years with a vaccine whose protective efficacy has been confirmed by surveillance data and outbreak...

Tuberculosis in children provides essential epidemiological information because it always indicates recent transmission. It is therefore important to have effective epidemiological...

Introduction: In France, surveillance of meningococcal infections (MI) is based on mandatory case reporting. In 1989–1990, the completeness of mandatory reporting was estimated at 51%...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

The RENARUB network, established in 1976, is the primary source of information on the epidemiological situation regarding rubella infections acquired during pregnancy and cases of...

The history of pertussis in European countries has clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of pertussis vaccination in reducing the incidence of the disease. In some countries, whole-cell...