Tag: Regional Health Agency
Understanding everything about the death of a three-year-old child from cholera
“Choose between the plague and cholera”. The expression has remained in the French language and should only be a relic of the past, like putting “the cart before the horse”.…
49 people poisoned by organic flour contaminated with datura
They were prey to dizziness and powerful hallucinations while preparing a cake, bread or pancakes. Forty-nine people, including five children, were poisoned after consuming organic buckwheat flour contaminated with datura,…
Recall of organic flour contaminated with datura, a powerful hallucinogen
Word has it that partygoers from Brittany are roaming the stores looking for them before they are withdrawn from sale. ARS Bretagne published a press release this Sunday recalling a…
Wild garlic or lily of the valley, how to recognize them to avoid poisoning?
Attention cooks and other plant lovers: don’t pick just anything from nature! This is the meaning of the message delivered this Thursday by the regional health agency (ARS) of the…
First three cases of “indigenous” cholera confirmed
On Friday, the regional health agency (ARS) of Mayotte announced that it had identified the first three cases of “indigenous” cholera. Since mid-March, ten imported cases of this disease have…
Toulouse: What we know about the fire at the nursing home which led to 42 hospitalizations
An unimpressive incident but increasingly serious consequences. This morning, in the town of Blagnac, near Toulouse, a fire broke out in a nursing home. Although the fire was quickly brought…
More than 160,000 residents receive polluted water
The water intended for the consumption of 166,000 inhabitants of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region contains Pfas, the “eternal pollutants”, at levels higher than the European reference threshold, according to the analysis…
Bronchiolitis, flu, Covid… Tense situation in hospitals
The situation is tense in Alsatian hospitals. The Grand Est regional health agency (ARS) activated the white plan in Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin on Thursday. Hospitals in these departments are particularly…
After the fatal fall of a teenager, “no dysfunction” in the vaccination against the papillomavirus
While the judicial aspect is still open, the conclusions of the administrative investigation carried out by the ARS after the fatal fall of a teenager who had just been vaccinated,…
Drinking water circulates again, after fifteen days of restriction
Dentists and educational and medical establishments will be able to resume normal life. Drinking water is once again circulating in the pipes of the town of Samer, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, in…