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Assessment of environmental exposure to asbestos as part of a health risk assessment in Andouillé, Mayenne
The hamlet of Rochefort, in the municipality of Andouillé (Mayenne), is built around a former asbestos processing plant that operated until 1952. On the industrial site, which has been...
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Gay Barometer 2000: Results of the First Survey of Patrons at Parisian Gay Venues
The resurgence of risky behavior regarding HIV and STDs among gay men, observed both abroad and in France, has led to the expansion of the system for studying and monitoring preventive...
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Anonymous and Free HIV Testing Clinics (CDAG): Report on HIV Testing Activities, Paris, Trends 1998–2001
An analysis of activity data from the CDAGs in 1998 and 1999 revealed an increase in the proportion of positive HIV diagnoses in the Île-de-France region. In light of these results, the...
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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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An outbreak of meningococcal B infection in a town in the Jura region, January–February 2000
Between January 21 and February 16, 2000, the occurrence of three cases of meningococcal meningitis of the antigenic serotype B:15: P1-7, 16 and one suspected case in a town of 12,000...
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The 2001 syphilis epidemic in Guadeloupe: a link to social vulnerability and crack use
Venereal syphilis, which has been on the decline for twenty years in developed countries, has reached low incidence rates of less than 5 per 100,000. Some of these countries, including...
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Type 2 diabetes in France's overseas territories: an unintended consequence of modernization
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Cases of meningococcal infections of serogroup W135 linked to the March 2000 pilgrimage to Mecca: Update as of August 2, 2000
This update follows BEH No. 19/2000 of May 9, 2000, and outlines the main developments since that date. Following the occurrence of cases of serogroup W135 meningococcal infection among...
