The tall ship gathering known as "Les Voiles de la liberté" was first held in 1989 to mark the bicentennial of the Revolution. The event, which took place in the commercial port of Rouen...

The 1999 health impact assessment in Brest and Nantes, related to chronic exposure to air pollution, is based on four steps: hazard identification, selection of exposure-risk...

The assessment of the health impacts of air pollution on the Toulon metropolitan area, presented in this report, is fully in line with the guidelines of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...

In 2002, in the three departments of southwestern France, invasive meningococcal C infections were hyperendemic, with a rate nearly ten times higher than the national average (0.3 per...

The incidence of typhoid fever has become very low (0.15 per 100,000) in mainland France, and more than 80% of reported cases occur upon return from travel to endemic countries. In...

In May 2002, a general practitioner in the town of Vauhallan (Essonne) reported to the DDASS the occurrence of two cases of leukemia, three months apart, in two children of the same age...

Following various indications suggesting an increase in leptospirosis cases in mainland France, particularly in the Dordogne, enhanced surveillance for this disease was implemented by...

Measles surveillance in France—a disease subject to mandatory reporting from 1945 to 1985—has been conducted since 1985 by the Sentinelles network, established by Inserm U444, based on...

Since 1992, French law has required the preventive distribution of stable iodine tablets in areas defined by specific emergency response plans (PPI) around nuclear power plants....

Although the requirement to report sexually transmitted diseases was abolished (July 2000), the resurgence of syphilis in late 2001 led to the establishment of a surveillance network...