Key Points - Week 41 (October 8–14, 2018) Nationwide, asthma-related visits among children remain stable at SOS Médecins clinics and are slightly up in emergency departments...

Summary In week 41 (October 8–15), activity at SOS Médecins clinics continued to rise among children under 2 years of age (+7%, or +387 visits). It increased moderately among those...

Summary In week 41 (October 8–13), total emergency department activity increased moderately among children (+6%, or 5,194 visits) and adults aged 15–74 (+3%, or 7,532 visits), while...

Summary Nationwide, in week 40 (October 1–7), mortality remained within the usual range of fluctuation across all age groups (Figures 1–3). These observations should be...

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Key points Slight increase in emergency room visits for bronchiolitis in most regions Indicators return to baseline levels in Corsica

Key Points Measles resurgence since November 2017 Trend in weekly incidence of reported cases: epidemic peak in week 13 (W13 2018), followed by a rapid decline in the weekly...

Chlordecone, a pesticide that is toxic to humans and causes long-term water and soil contamination, was used in banana plantations in the French West Indies from 1972 to 1993. Since...

Key Points Data from mandatory tuberculosis reporting show a 3% increase in the reporting rate in 2016 and a 4% increase in 2017 in the Île-de-France region, following a period...

Key Points Recent Syphilis Following an increase from 2013 to 2015, there was a decrease in the number of cases of recent syphilis in 2016, regardless of sexual orientation....