French Guiana, like the rest of the Amazon region, has long been considered a low-risk area for Chagas disease, with forest-dwelling vectors and a wild animal reservoir. Changes in the...

Introduction - In 2005, the number of Legionnaires' disease cases rose sharply in the Alpes-Maritimes department, with 74 cases reported and an incidence rate of 7.42 cases per 100,000...

The Club Méditerranée resort in Serre Chevalier welcomes many guests, including children aged 4 months to 4 years (Baby Club), with a high turnover rate (1,100 people per week). During...

In late 1999, four cases of cancer were reported among children attending the Franklin Roosevelt preschool in Vincennes, built on a former Kodak industrial site. Three cases were...

Staff at the Paris Observatory became aware of what they considered to be a high number of cancer cases among employees in one of the buildings at the Meudon site between 1995 and...

In September 2008, an acute hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection was reported to the Gard Departmental Directorate of Health and Social Affairs in a teenage girl whose only risk factor...

In late January 2009, the Languedoc-Roussillon regional office of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance was notified by the Parasitology-Mycology Laboratory at the...

This study describes the course of an outbreak of community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) skin infections carrying the genes encoding Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL(+))...

In December 2008, a patient who had undergone surgery for kidney cancer reported, in a letter addressed to the Minister of Health, about a dozen similar cases at the Lavéra...