[Epidemiologic surveillance in the Army and Public Health: as exemplified by rubella]. 1997

Y Buisson, and R Migliani, and R Teyssou
Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Val-de-Grâce, Paris.

Since 1993, several outbreaks of rubella are annually reported from the French military. This trend reveals a transfer of the reservoir of wild virus towards a non-immune population of male adolescents and young adults, as a result of the rubella control programmes. This paradoxical phenomenon should disappear within the next decade, when the new vaccinal schedule including a combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine for the children of both sexes 11 to 13 years old will have been implemented. Meanwhile, the military system of weekly epidemiological report will be usable as a national observatory for the rubella. Moreover, providing specific data in real time, it will be able to support a strategy of intervention for an early neutralization of epidemics.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008887 Military Medicine The practice of medicine as applied to special circumstances associated with military operations. Medicine, Military
D011159 Population Surveillance Ongoing scrutiny of a population (general population, study population, target population, etc.), generally using methods distinguished by their practicability, uniformity, and frequently their rapidity, rather than by complete accuracy. Surveillance, Population
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D005260 Female Females
D005602 France A country in western Europe bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel, the Mediterranean Sea, and the countries of Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the principalities of Andorra and Monaco, and by the duchy of Luxembourg. Its capital is Paris. Corsica,Saint Pierre and Miquelon,Miquelon and Saint Pierre,Miquelon and St. Pierre,St. Pierre and Miquelon
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293 Adolescent A person 13 to 18 years of age. Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D012409 Rubella An acute infectious disease caused by the RUBELLA VIRUS. The virus enters the respiratory tract via airborne droplet and spreads to the LYMPHATIC SYSTEM. Measles, German,Three Day Measles,German Measles,Measle, Three Day,Measles, Three Day,Rubellas,Three Day Measle

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