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Exposure to chlordecone and the risk of prostate cancer. The Karuprostate Study, Guadeloupe (France).
Chlordecone, an insecticide with estrogen-like hormonal properties, was used on banana plantations in the French West Indies from 1973 to 1993, leading to soil contamination and exposure...
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Assessment and Management of Dietary Risk Associated with Chlordecone for the Populations of Guadeloupe and Martinique.
Chlordecone contamination, first detected in the public water supply in 1999 and then in certain root vegetables in 2002 in Guadeloupe and Martinique, led to a series of measures...
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Sidebar. The ESCAL and Calbas dietary surveys in the French West Indies.
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Sidebar. Chlordecone: Knowledge, Perceptions, and Behaviors Among the Caribbean Population.
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Exposure of the Caribbean population to chlordecone.
Since 1999, several studies have estimated chlordecone exposure among the populations of Guadeloupe and Martinique, either through direct measurement in biological matrices (blood, milk,...
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Chlordecone in the Caribbean: An Updated Assessment of Health Risks [Editorial]
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From water pollution to food contamination: the health management of chlordecone in the Caribbean.
The rediscovery of chlordecone in surface waters in the French West Indies sparked a significant mobilization, first locally and then at the national level. A pesticide used to control...
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Renacoq: Surveillance of Pertussis in Hospitals in 2004
For more than 15 years, over 95% of 2-year-olds have received the three doses required for the primary pertussis vaccination series. The disease has become rare in children but persists...
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Glycopeptide-resistant enterococci: the situation in France in 2005
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Evaluation of the Quality of a Surveillance Network for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the Ile-de-France Region in 2001–2002 (Azay-Mycobacteria Network)
Surveillance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to antituberculosis drugs in France has been conducted since 1995 by a group of microbiologists from university hospitals, the...
