An outbreak of Q fever occurred in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in May 2014. Cases of pneumonia reported to the Southern Interregional Epidemiology Unit by the Valréas Hospital...

The 24-month health certificate (CS24) is designed to identify health risks in a child’s environment and serves as an epidemiological tool for assessing, among other things, vaccination...

France has recently been affected by a measles outbreak involving healthcare professionals. In 2013, a cross-sectional study was conducted among medical and pharmacy residents at the...

Introduction: In 2007, the mandatory BCG vaccination requirement was suspended and replaced by a recommendation to vaccinate children at high risk of tuberculosis. Since then, it has no...

Introduction: More than half (56%) of tuberculosis cases reported in France involve people born abroad. Our study evaluated screening for active tuberculosis (ATB) among migrants in...

Introduction: Using the 2014–2015 influenza epidemic in the Pays de la Loire region as a case study, this article describes how surveillance tools are used at the regional level and...

In October 2015, in accordance with the recommendations of the assessment mission on the healthcare system for migrants living in the Calais camp, an epidemiological surveillance system...

Introduction: Routine data on vaccination coverage (VC) among adolescents are scarce at the subnational level in France. However, it is important for regional health agencies to have...

Introduction: In late December 2013, a biologist alerted the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Health Agency (ARS) to the diagnosis of four cases of hepatitis A within five days. After...