For more than 20 years, organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), primarily chlordecone, were used in Martinique to control the banana weevil. Scientific uncertainties regarding the health...

On April 22, 2009, the WHO issued an international alert regarding cases of human infection with a new influenza A(H1N1)2009 virus, initially observed in Mexico and later in the United...

In mainland France, virological surveillance of seasonal influenza is carried out by two National Reference Centers (CNR) for influenza viruses: one in the North region (Institut...

The transmission of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) remains high among people who inject drugs (PWID). While harm reduction policies that promote IDUs’ access to sterile syringes and...

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...

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...

In order to validate and supplement the estimates of the scale of the dengue epidemic in Martinique in 2001–2002, which were based on data from the surveillance system, a dengue...

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...

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...

The industrial disaster that occurred on September 21, 2001, in Toulouse resulted in the total or partial destruction of 1,300 facilities, affecting nearly 21,000 jobs. About five months...