Summary In Week 13 (March 23–29, 2020), emergency room visits and hospitalizations following visits continued to decline among children (down 29% and 25%, respectively). Among adults,...

Summary In Week 13 (March 23–28, 2020), total activity at SOS Médecins clinics declined among those under 15 years of age (-43%, or 6,926 fewer visits) and those aged 15–74 (-9%, or...

Key Points Worsening impact of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in France: increase in the number of severe cases admitted to intensive care and deaths: ICU: 62% of cases with comorbidities and...

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The identification of a case of childhood lead poisoning requires the physician to report the case to the state health authorities and initiate an environmental investigation. The...

Because it has been used for centuries, lead is now a common industrial toxin and an environmental pollutant. Lead is or has been used in a wide variety of industrial applications and in...

The evolving blood donor deferral policy for men who have sex with men: impact on the risk of HIV transmission through blood transfusion in France.

In 2018, 1,630 outbreaks of foodborne illness were reported in France, affecting 14,742 people, of whom 777 (5%) sought medical care at a hospital (either through hospitalization or a...