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Outbreak of foodborne illness caused by Campylobacter jejuni during a European scientific conference, Lyon, February 2003
On February 27, 2003, one of the participants in a European scientific meeting held on February 14 and 15, 2003, in Lyon reported to the event organizer that four participants, including...
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Surveillance of Syphilis in Metropolitan France, 2000–2003
In July 2000, an amendment to the Public Health Code lifted the requirement to report sexually transmitted diseases (Ordinance 2000-548 of June 15, 2000). In late November 2000, a...
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Assessment of the short- and long-term health impacts of air pollution in Aquitaine. The urban areas of Agen, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Pau, and Périgueux
In France, air quality management is governed by the Law on Air Quality and the Rational Use of Energy of December 30, 1996. It requires each region to establish a Regional Air Quality...
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Factors Influencing Participation in Organized Breast Cancer Screening: The FADO-sein Study
In France, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women; in 2000, it accounted for 35.7% of all new cancer cases and 20.2% of cancer deaths among women. The organized breast...
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Organized cervical cancer screening. Epidemiological evaluation of the four "pilot" departments
To date, there is no national organized cervical cancer screening program in France. Since 1990, four departments—Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Isère, and Martinique—have organized screening for...
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Surveillance of bacterial antibiotic resistance in urban areas: the Labville network. Implementation of an automated system for collecting bacteriology data in private clinical laboratories, 2005–2009. Evaluation of a pilot study
To supplement the monitoring of antibiotic resistance in France, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) established in 2000 a network of 69 private outpatient medical...
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A review of the major studies and surveys conducted in France over the past five years that collect data in the field of nutrition
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Monitoring of health effects related to air pollution in urban areas
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Environmental exposure to asbestos among residents living near former industrial sites and natural outcrops. A case-control study based on data from the National Mesothelioma Surveillance Program
A case-control study was planned to assess the increased risk of pleural mesothelioma associated with environmental asbestos exposure among residents living near former industrial sites....
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Risk factors for sporadic community-acquired Legionnaires' disease in France
Background: Legionellosis is a recognized cause of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia in adults and is associated with high mortality. Risk factors have primarily been identified...
