Vaccination ( 4522 results )
Semaine européenne de la vaccination 2026
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Invasive meningococcal infections in France: trends in 2000 and 2001
Invasive meningococcal infections (IMIs) are among the diseases that must be reported to health authorities. Initially, all suspected cases must be reported without delay to the...
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Memorandum from the Directorate General for Health (DGS) and the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) regarding the case definition of invasive meningococcal infections and their reporting
This notice from the DGS and the InVS provides the new definition of cases of invasive meningococcal disease that must be reported immediately to health authorities and require the...
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European Tuberculosis Surveillance in 1999 and Recent Trends
In the late 1980s, Europe saw a halt in the steady decline in tuberculosis incidence. In Western Europe, this trend was linked to increased migration from countries with high endemicity...
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Epidemiology of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis in France remains a pressing issue. The national incidence rate was 11.2 cases per 100,000 population in 2000 and has remained stable since 1997. The situation is...
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Outbreak of Tuberculosis in Institutional Settings. Epidemiology and Clinical Features of Tuberculosis Outbreaks in Institutional Settings
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Epidemiological Impact of a Change in BCG Vaccination Policy in France: A Literature Review and Analysis of Available Data
The resumption since 1993 of the downward trend in tuberculosis incidence in France calls for a reassessment of the relevance of the BCG vaccination policy. Indeed, the available...
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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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Tuberculosis in France in the Year 2000. Proceedings of the symposium organized by the Association for the Development of Epidemiology in Aquitaine (ADEA) and the Institute of Epidemiology, Public Health, and Development (ISPED), November 17, 2000
While in 2001, one-third of the world’s population was still infected with the tuberculosis bacillus, 95% of cases occurred in the poorest countries on the planet. Yet, since the...
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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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Epidemiology of Rubella in France, 20 Years After the Introduction of Vaccination
