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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.
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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...
