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 were...

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...

In late May 2009, a decision was made to monitor clusters of influenza cases in order to detect the circulation of the 2009 H1N1 virus in the population. On Monday, June 22, the...

Data from mandatory tuberculosis reporting (DO) between 2000 and 2007 in Brittany were analyzed. Brittany had the third-highest incidence rate in France (1,975 reported cases, eight...

As the French territories closest to the areas initially affected by the 2009 A(H1N1) influenza pandemic, the regions of Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and Martinique, along with the...

The strategy for investigating and screening tuberculosis cases appears to be poorly implemented in France. To describe the screening of close contacts (CCs) of patients hospitalized for...

Introduction - The availability of two new vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV) offers significant hope for women’s health, particularly for women who have never been infected...