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Legionnaires disease in France

Legionnaires disease has 2 WHO-tracked outbreak events in France between 1998 and 2003.

Legionnaires disease · France · 2 WHO events across 2 calendar years (1998–2003).

Event log

Year DON ID ICD-10 ICD-11
2003 DON0781 A481 1C19
1998 DON0244 A481 1C19

Position within the disease

  • France is rank #1 of 9 for this disease.
  • The country sits in the WHO EUR region.
  • Last reported event: 2003 (23 years ago).

Regional peers (EUR)

7 countries in this region report this disease. Median event count: 1.

Country Events
France 2
Belgium 1
Netherlands 1
Norway 1
Poland 1
Spain 1
Portugal 1

How this disease ranks among France’s threats

Legionnaires disease is rank #7 of 23 diseases reported by France to the WHO. The full country profile is at the France Hub.

France health system snapshot

Indicator 2023
Population 68,000,000
Life expectancy 82.30 yr
Healthy life expectancy 71.70 yr
Hospital beds /1k 5.90
Physicians /1k 3.30
Healthcare spending % GDP 11.10%
DTP3 vaccination 98.00%
TB incidence /100k 7.00
HIV prevalence 0.40%

Outbreak Events

2

First Reported

1998

Latest Reported

2003

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Country

France • EUR