Dengue and chikungunya are two arboviruses that circulated extensively in 2006 in the French overseas departments, with dengue affecting the Caribbean region and chikungunya the Indian...

Lead poisoning in children was rediscovered in France nearly 20 years ago, with lead-based paint—still present in older Parisian homes—identified as the source of the poisoning. In the...

The authors point out that even low levels of lead exposure can affect a child’s psychomotor development. Young children are particularly at risk because they ingest lead more frequently...

Over the past thirty years, the prevalence of asthma and allergies has increased significantly in France, as in many industrialized countries. In metropolitan France, the current...

Objectives - To assess the prevalence of persistent joint symptoms following infection with the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and to investigate the factors associated with the persistence...

Objectives - To assess the post-epidemic seroprevalence of chikungunya virus (CHIKV), determine the proportion of symptomatic cases, and identify risk factors associated with this...

Introduction - The Indian Ocean Epidemiological Surveillance Network (REVE) is a network established in 1996 for the exchange of epidemiological data on infectious diseases among the...

Chikungunya is an arbovirus infection generally considered mild and characterized by fever and joint pain. During an exceptionally large-scale epidemic that affected the island of...

Introduction - A major chikungunya outbreak affected Réunion between March 2005 and June 2006, affecting nearly 270,000 people. This study aims to describe mortality during that same...