The consequences of the explosion at the AZF factory on September 21, 2001, in Toulouse were severe, both in terms of human casualties (30 deaths, including a high school student, and...

The Mont Blanc Tunnel disaster in March 1999 intensified the debate over international road freight transport in the Alpine valleys. Air pollution caused by road traffic is among the...

The town of Saint-Laurent-le-Minier in the Gard department has been a center of significant mining activity since ancient times. This activity ceased in 1995. A simplified risk...

French Guiana is the only French department (along with the territorial community of Mayotte) where malaria is endemic. More than 97% of infections occur in the area of year-round...

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...

Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome is a viral infection that presents as a painful flu-like syndrome accompanied by signs of kidney failure, with a generally favorable prognosis. The...