In order to monitor and prevent the risk of epidemics, certain diseases must be declared by health professionals to regional health agencies: these are notifiable diseases (MDO). Set up in 2003, this system has counted 34 DO diseases to date. Two new diseases have been added to this list: west nile virus and tick-borne encephalitis. The first is a viral disease, transmitted by mosquitoes (mainly of the Culex genus) which become contaminated exclusively through contact with infected birds. The second is transmitted to humans through the bite of a tick carrying the virus.
Notifiable diseases: what are they?
The monitoring system for notifiable diseases is based on the transmission of data by doctors and biologists (liberal and hospital) to public health medical inspectors and their collaborators from the Regional Health Agencies (ARS) then to epidemiologists from Public Health France . The objective is to detect and monitor the appearance of cases of certain diseases in order to prevent the risk of epidemics. Here is the list:
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Coal
- Chikungunya
- Cholera
- Dengue fever
- Diphtheria
- African hemorrhagic fevers
- Yellow fever
- Typhoid fever
- Acute hepatitis A
- Acute hepatitis B infection
- HIV infection
- Invasive meningococcal disease
- Legionellosis
- Listeriosis
- Mesothelioma
- Orthopoxyvirosis (including smallpox)
- Malaria
- Plague
- Poliomyelitis
- Rage
- Measles
- Rubella
- Lead poisoning in minor children
- Urogenital schistosomiasis
- Suspicion of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
- Tetanus
- Collective food poisoning
- Tuberculosis
- Tularemia
- Typhus
- Zika
The inclusion or removal of a disease from the MDO list is made by decision of the Minister responsible for Health by decree issued after consulting the High Council for Public Health (HCSP). Two new diseases have therefore been added to this (already) long list: West Nile virus (also called West Nile virus) and tick-borne encephalitis, due to the extension of their transmission zone and the increasing number of cases in Europe.
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