Dermatological diseases of compulsory notification in Brazil.

Compulsory notification of prion diseases in Brazil: What has changed since 2005?

Health surveillance, biosafety and emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases in Brazil.

The present paper presents compulsory notification data for infectious diseases and epidemiologic ones recorded at the Center for Strategic Information and Health Surveillance (CIEVS) for the period of March 2006 to April 2007. Data is presented in accordance with geographic distribution, time and risk classification of the etiologic agents found, according to Ministry of Health regulations. Th...

The Compulsory Notification of Phthisis

I AM one of the practitioners of medicine in Edinburgh who believe that in the causation of phthisis, infection is a factor of such relatively small importance that the compulsory notification of this disease as an infectious disease is, in the majority of cases, quite unnecessary. I am, further, one of those who hold that its compulsory notification in all cases would be mischievous, as divert...

Incidence of venereal diseases and the campaign against them in Bulgaria.

In 1931, according to data presented at the first national conference on syphilis organized by the Dermatological Society of Bulgaria, 1 per cent. of the population suffered from syphilis. This estimate included those suffering from endemic syphilis, which was common at that time in certain districts, and about one-third of the patients had primary syphilis. According to data presented at the s...

[Trends in AIDS incidence and mortality in Brazil, 1985 to 1998].

INTRODUCTION AIDS mortality is decreasing in Brazil, especially after the introduction of anti-retroviral therapy. A study was conducted to evaluate AIDS incidence and mortality in a certain area of Brazil. METHODS The number of AIDS deaths according to sex in the study period, obtained from registry sources, were used as the numerator of mortality rates. From 1985 to 1995, deaths with underl...