paris/fever

A localised outbreak of trichinosis occurred in January 1976 in the southern suburbs of Paris. A total fo 125 cases was recorded including 30 children. The prominent symptoms were oedema of the face or eyelids, fever, and myalgia; diarrhoea was unusual and constipation common. An increased blood

A recent trichinosis epidemy involved around hundred patients in southern Paris suburbs; most frequent and marked clinical features were: facial and palpebral oedema, fever, bowel troubles (mostly constipation; diarrhea was seldom) and muscular tenderness. Most of the time eosinophiles cells and

Three women were consecutively admitted to our medical intensive care unit for thyrotoxicosis after the ingestion of dietary pills accidentally containing high levels of thyroxin. These cases were observed during an outbreak in the Paris area. Despite similar blood levels of thyroid hormones, their

METHODS Analyze characteristics of neuromeningeal tuberculosis in the northeastern suburbs of Paris. METHODS Retrospective study of 19 observations between 1988 and 1999. RESULTS Thirteen cases of meningitis, 3 cases of meningitis associated with a tuberculoma and 3 cases with isolated tuberculoma

In 1941, at Christmastime more than 600 German soldiers visited Paris and were infected with the bacillus of Eberth, the agent of typhoid fever. All of the infections occurred at the Brasserie La Brune situated in the center of Paris. It was, in fact, an act of Resistance. The proof of the infection