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Letter to the Editor regarding the article “Drug-resistant tuberculosis in Seine-Saint-Denis: a case-based screening study”
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Awareness of the Risks Associated with Carbon Monoxide in a Public Housing Complex Partially Equipped with Carbon Monoxide Detectors, 2007, Morbihan, France
Introduction - Awareness of the risks associated with carbon monoxide (CO) was assessed in a public housing complex in Morbihan. The study sought to identify differences in awareness...
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Prevalence and Risk Factors for Hepatitis C Virus Seroconversion in a Cohort of Intravenous Drug Users in Northeastern France
The transmission of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) remains high among people who inject drugs (PWID). While harm reduction policies that promote IDUs’ access to sterile syringes and...
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Estimating the Scale of the Dengue Outbreak in Martinique, 2001–2002
In order to validate and supplement the estimates of the scale of the dengue epidemic in Martinique in 2001–2002, which were based on data from the surveillance system, a dengue...
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Impact of the AZF factory explosion on rescue workers and employees in the Toulouse metropolitan area: preliminary findings.
The industrial disaster that occurred on September 21, 2001, in Toulouse resulted in the total or partial destruction of 1,300 facilities, affecting nearly 21,000 jobs. About five months...
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Influenza Surveillance in the French West Indies and French Guiana: 2007–2008 Season
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Occupational Health Surveillance: The Case of the “Two-Week Campaign on Occupational Diseases (MCP)” in Midi-Pyrénées, France, November 2006
Introduction - The national surveillance program for work-related diseases (WRD) was implemented in the Midi-Pyrénées region in 2006 to estimate the prevalence of WRD by sex, age,...
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The recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Board of the 2008–2010 Chlordecone Action Plan regarding the exposure of the Caribbean population to chlordecone.
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Organochlorine Pesticides and Cancer: Contributions of Epidemiological Studies to the Assessment and Management of Health Risks in the Caribbean.
Chlordecone, an organochlorine insecticide formerly used in banana plantations, contaminates soil, water, and certain plant and animal food sources in Guadeloupe and Martinique....
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A study of the spatial distribution of cancers potentially linked to soil contamination by organochlorine pesticides in Martinique.
For more than 20 years, organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), primarily chlordecone, were used in Martinique to control the banana weevil. Scientific uncertainties regarding the health...
