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Sales of respiratory medications: a new indicator for assessing the short-term health effects of air pollution
The French data primarily used to date to measure the short-term effects of air pollution on human health have been mortality or hospital admission data. Another health indicator,...
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Ciguatera food poisoning: how to recognize it even if the patient hasn’t traveled
On August 29, 2001, the Department of Infectious Diseases at the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) was notified by a physician at a Parisian hospital of an outbreak...
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An outbreak of hepatitis A among gay men in Paris in 2000
The introduction of the hepatitis A virus into a population of non-immune young adults, whose sexual practices facilitate fecal-oral transmission of the virus, represents a situation...
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Resurgence of syphilis in France, 2000–2001.
Since the early 1940s, syphilis had been a reportable disease. However, for many years, doctors had stopped reporting cases of syphilis. Consequently, in July 2000, an amendment to the...
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Clusters of pediatric hemolytic-uremic syndrome, Finistère department, 1993–2000
In France, a surveillance system for pediatric hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in children under the age of 15 was established in 1996 following a study covering the years 1993–1995. Its...
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The resurgence of syphilis in France: yet another reason to step up prevention efforts.
Shortly after the requirement to report venereal diseases to health authorities was lifted, several venereal disease clinics (DAVs) and clinicians specializing in the management of...
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Managing Legionella Risk in Healthcare Facilities: A Survey of the Situation in the Northern Interregional Area
Legionella, a waterborne bacterium, is one of the causative agents of nosocomial pneumonia. Results from mandatory reporting show that 17% of Legionnaires' disease cases in 1999 had...
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Mass food poisoning or a psychogenic phenomenon?
On February 11, 2000, a physician from the student health promotion department (school physician) reported a suspected outbreak of foodborne illness at a vocational high school to the...
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Tobacco use among young people aged 12–25 in four regions of France
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Smoking among nursing and midwifery students at the AP-HP.
