In 2002, in the three departments of southwestern France, invasive meningococcal C infections were hyperendemic, with a rate nearly ten times higher than the national average (0.3 per...

The incidence of typhoid fever has become very low (0.15 per 100,000) in mainland France, and more than 80% of reported cases occur upon return from travel to endemic countries. In...

Following various indications suggesting an increase in leptospirosis cases in mainland France, particularly in the Dordogne, enhanced surveillance for this disease was implemented by...

In France, as in other industrialized countries, the annual incidence of typhoid fever has become very low (0.15 per 100,000 in metropolitan France); on average, 80 cases of typhoid...

Measles surveillance in France—a disease subject to mandatory reporting from 1945 to 1985—has been conducted since 1985 by the Sentinelles network, established by Inserm U444, based on...

In late May 2002, the Virology Laboratory at the Timone University Hospital (CHU) in Marseille notified the InVS of five confirmed cases of measles among young adults residing in...

During a screening campaign in a community in March 2002—where a case of tuberculosis had previously been diagnosed each year—13 cases of tuberculosis were identified, two of which...

On July 28, 2009, a cluster of influenza cases at a vacation center in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region was reported to the InVS regional office in the South. An epidemiological and...

The assessment of vaccination coverage at the regional level needs to be improved. The feasibility of routinely estimating vaccination coverage at 24 months of age in the Midi-Pyrénées...