Key points Acute respiratory infections Decreased activity in hospital emergency departments and stable activity at SOS Médecins (moderate activity level) Bronchiolitis ( 1...

From May 1 to November 30 each year, Santé publique France coordinates enhanced seasonal surveillance for chikungunya, dengue, Zika, and West Nile virus.

Background: The epidemiology of stage 3–5 chronic kidney disease remains poorly documented in France despite the burden it imposes. The objective of our study was to provide an...

To assist healthcare professionals in their efforts to screen for overweight at an early stage, we sought to identify early predictive markers of subsequent overweight. To do this, we...

Introduction.—While lower limb amputation (LLA) is a serious complication of diabetes, the long-term outcomes of amputees have been little studied in France. The objective of this...

Objectives. We sought to assess, among participants in the Gazel cohort, the association between certain occupational biomechanical and psychosocial factors evaluated in 1994–95 and...

In 2008, the number of reported cases of active tuberculosis was 5,758, or 9.0 per 105 inhabitants. The median age of cases was 45 years, and 59% of reported cases were men. In 2008,...

Introduction. Since 2004, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Institut de veille sanitaire) has implemented a non-specific surveillance system called SurSAUD®, which...

Introduction.—Storm Klaus swept through southwestern France on Saturday, January 24, 2009, leaving more than 1.7 million households without power, including 477,000 in the...