TUBERCULOSIS IN FRANCE - THE CURRENT EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION AND THE PROGRESS OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS

  • 1 January 1983
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 11  (5) , 687-697
Abstract
By evaluating the statistics of the cause of death, the current reports of antituberculosis clinics and the information gathered from the tuberculosis registers of certain departments, an epidemiologic survey in France shows that there were 2048 deaths due to tuberculosis in 1981 (3.8/ 100,000). The level is steadily falling; there were 8.2/100,000 in 1970. It is the same for morbidity, the incidence of all forms of tuberculosis was 54/100,000 in 1972 and 26.9 in 1980. In the register in the Bas-Rhin the level from 70.5 to 30.4, in the Rhone from 41.6 to 14.4 and in the Hautes Pyrenees from 22.2 (in 1973) to 15.3. In the Bas-Rhin the prevalence has fallen steadily: 233.3 in 1972 to 97.7 in 1979. Foreigners are 5 times more affected than the French by respiratory forms and 8 times more affected for extrarespiratory tuberculosis. Those who came from Black Africa are the most affected.

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