The strategy for measles elimination is outlined here. To eliminate measles, it is necessary to increase vaccination coverage among children, vaccinate unvaccinated generations or...

In late September 2004, a general practitioner in southwestern France reported several cases of hepatitis A that had occurred since July 1 in several neighboring municipalities, all of...

Since the last review of the polio situation in France in November 2000, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) European Region was declared polio-free on June 21, 2002. National...

The Île-de-France region is the hardest-hit, with an incidence rate of 27.1 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2002. Foreign nationals aged 15 to 39 constitute the primary at-risk group, with...

Since 1996, the Renacoq network has tracked pertussis cases identified in pediatric hospital settings and monitored the impact of vaccination strategies. In 42 hospitals,...

Vaccination coverage among young children is estimated using health certificates, through a collaborative effort involving general practitioners, departmental Maternal and Child Health...

Epidemiological surveillance of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in France relies primarily on mandatory reporting and the phenotypic and genotypic characterization of strains at...

To examine the incidence rates (IR) of HIV-associated tuberculosis in France, we selected 72,580 patients followed between January 1, 1997, and December 31, 2008, from the French...

France is classified as a country with low endemicity for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, with an estimated prevalence of HBs antigen (HBsAg) of 0.65%, an incidence of symptomatic...

The data presented here pertain to cases of active tuberculosis reported in 2008 under the mandatory tuberculosis reporting system. In 2008, there were 5,758 reported cases of active...