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Updated Recommendations for Malaria Prevention for Travelers
Only Plasmodium falciparum requires preventive measures; the other species do not pose a life-threatening risk and respond well to chloroquine: Travelers should take steps to avoid...
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Containment of polioviruses in the laboratory.
Once global eradication has been achieved and declared, and after the use of the oral vaccine has ceased, laboratories that use or store the poliovirus will become the sole source of...
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AIDS Awareness Campaign: "AIDS Won't Get Past Me"
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Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases in Private Practice: A Review of the "Sentinel" Network in 1995
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Case-control study on HIV seroconversion among healthcare workers following percutaneous exposure to contaminated blood. United States, France, and the United Kingdom, January 1988–August 1994
To identify potential risk factors, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), in collaboration with French and British health authorities, conducted a retrospective...
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Changes in General Practitioners' Health Behaviors Regarding Smoking from 1992 to 1994
The national "Health Barometer" surveys conducted by the French Committee for Health Education (CFES) provide insight into changes in physicians' smoking habits from 1992 to 1994. The...
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DGS Circular No. 97/311 of April 24, 1997, regarding the surveillance and prevention of Legionnaires' disease
In 1995, a working group coordinated by the Directorate General for Health and the National Public Health Network (RNSP) reviewed strategies for the surveillance of infectious diseases....
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Etiology of fevers following travel from the tropics: characteristics of the patient cohort in a study of 613 hospitalized cases in Marseille, 1999–2003.
Each year, more than 50 million people—including over 8 million French citizens—travel to tropical regions. More than half (15% to 70%, depending on the study) report health problems...
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The AIDS Situation in Europe
In 1996, 24,920 cases of AIDS were reported in the WHO European Region, bringing the cumulative total to 185,808 cases. For the first time since the start of the epidemic, the number of...
