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Human seroprevalence around pig outbreaks of Brucella suis biovar 2 brucellosis, France, 1993–2003
Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease found worldwide (500,000 new cases annually globally), but its incidence and prevalence vary widely from one country to another. In France, surveillance...
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Study of Risk Factors for Death Among Older Adults Living at Home During the August 2003 Heat Wave. July 2004
An exceptionally severe heat wave struck France between August 1 and 15, 2003, resulting in the deaths of nearly 15,000 people. The deceased were primarily people aged 65 and older...
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Investigation of a cluster of Legionnaires' disease cases in the Poitiers metropolitan area. August–September 2003
In France, in 2002, 1,021 cases of Legionnaires' disease were reported to health authorities, representing an incidence of 1.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The sex ratio was 2.9 men to...
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Assessment of the Health Impact of Air Pollution in the Valenciennes Area from 1999 to 2001
The Regional Air Quality Plan (PRQA), established under the Law on Air Quality and the Rational Use of Energy of December 30, 1996, and whose implementation procedures are specified by...
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Recent cases of acute hepatitis C among HIV-positive gay men in the Ile-de-France region between 2001 and 2004
In March 2004, an infectious diseases department and a hepatology department in Paris reported to the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) the recent occurrence of...
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Report of the InVS/Afsse Task Force on Poison Control Centers and Pharmacovigilance Centers. Proposals for the Organization of Pharmacovigilance. September 2003
Decrees No. 96-833 of September 17, 1996 (on the missions and resources of Poison Control Centers) and No. 99-841 of September 28, 1999 (on the organization of toxicovigilance) failed to...
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Preparing for an influenza pandemic. Estimating the impact of an influenza pandemic and analyzing strategies
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Preparing for an influenza pandemic. Estimating the weekly number of hospital admissions and hospital days during an influenza pandemic
As part of the effort to combat influenza pandemics, we conducted an initial study to estimate the epidemiological impact that an influenza pandemic might have in terms of expected...
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Assessment of the completeness of mandatory tuberculosis reporting in Limousin
National surveillance of tuberculosis cases is based on the mandatory reporting system (MR). In 1992–1993, an estimate of the completeness of mandatory reporting for this disease was...
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Preparing for an influenza pandemic
At the request of the Ministry of Health, we estimated the number of health events (cases, hospitalizations, and deaths) expected during an influenza pandemic and compared the impact and...
