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The Health Effects of Environmental Exposure to Asbestos: A Summary of Studies Conducted by the InVS
Environmental exposure to asbestos, long overshadowed by the issue of occupational exposure, has a health impact that is still difficult to quantify but very real. The French Institute...
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A Study of the Spatial Distribution of Cancers Potentially Linked to Soil Pollution by Organochlorine Pesticides in Martinique
For more than 20 years, organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), primarily chlordecone, were used in Martinique to control the banana weevil. Scientific uncertainties regarding the health...
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Q Fever Outbreak at a Meat Processing Plant, Maine-et-Loire, February 2009
The InVS regional office in the Pays de la Loire investigated an outbreak of Q fever that occurred in Maine-et-Loire in early 2009 at a facility comprising a cattle slaughterhouse and a...
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Dengue Outbreak in Saint Martin (Guadeloupe). Investigation Report
About twenty years ago, a dengue surveillance system was established in Guadeloupe and its outlying territories to detect the onset of epidemics, guide vector control efforts through the...
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Epidemiological surveillance of the Rouen Armada. June 28–July 6, 2003
The tall ship gathering known as "Les Voiles de la liberté" was first held in 1989 to mark the bicentennial of the Revolution. The event, which took place in the commercial port of Rouen...
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Assessment of the health impacts of urban air pollution. Brest and Nantes. Long-term impacts
The 1999 health impact assessment in Brest and Nantes, related to chronic exposure to air pollution, is based on four steps: hazard identification, selection of exposure-risk...
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Assessment of the health impacts of urban air pollution. Toulon metropolitan area. Short- and long-term impacts
The assessment of the health impacts of air pollution on the Toulon metropolitan area, presented in this report, is fully in line with the guidelines of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...
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Study of vaccination coverage following the meningococcal C vaccination campaign in the Landes, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and Hautes-Pyrénées departments in 2002
In 2002, in the three departments of southwestern France, invasive meningococcal C infections were hyperendemic, with a rate nearly ten times higher than the national average (0.3 per...
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Cluster of typhoid fever cases linked to a restaurant in Paris. October–November 2003
The incidence of typhoid fever has become very low (0.15 per 100,000) in mainland France, and more than 80% of reported cases occur upon return from travel to endemic countries. In...
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Study on the Prevalence of Three Tick-Borne Diseases in Alsace, Alsace (Tick) 2014–2015
The ALSA(CE)TIQUE study aimed to estimate the incidence of three tick-borne diseases in Alsace: Lyme disease (LD), human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE)....
