Around the world, there are fears of a new swine flu virus spreading... Several countries are on alert: in the United States, Europe and Japan, the authorities have taken the measure of the threat and have begun to implement certain preventive measures (in Japan in particular, installation of thermal cameras at airports and wearing masks). Interventions: Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin (Minister of Health and Sport): "France is one of the best prepared countries ... there is obviously an epidemic but not a pandemic ... We must call for vigilance but there is no reason to be alarmed for the moment"// Press conference in Washington by Dr. Richard Besser (Director, Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) on swine flu cases in the United States // Trinidad Jimenez (Spanish Minister of Health): "We are not in an emergency situation in our country; but we work to anticipate and activate prevention in the event of an evolution".
All eyes are on Japan, with the new influenza virus galloping. Radical measures have been taken across the country to stop the epidemic: compulsory masking and systematic hand disinfection. And in the Osaka region, the epicentre of the virus, all schools are closed for a week. Interventions: Toru Hashimoto (Governor of Osaka) // Margaret Chan (Director-General of the WHO): "We are all forced to take urgent and far-reaching measures in an atmosphere of great scientific uncertainty".
A thousand people have been quarantined in Hong Kong. An office tower where a majority of these people work has been thoroughly disinfected. A French expat, Pascal Chaumont, testifies on the hygiene measures (wearing the mask, disinfection) practiced and respected by the whole population to prevent the spread of the epidemic of atypical pneumonia or SARS.
Interview de Alain Mérieux (Institut Mérieux) sur le nouveau vaccin unique "rubéole, diphtérie et tétanos", ainsi que sur un nouveau vaccin contre la rage. Images d'illustration.
En visite au Musée Pasteur, Eric Brunet rencontre Stéphanie Colin, documentaliste, qui raconte l'épisode de la vaccination du petit Joseph Meister, 9 ans, mordu par un chien enragé, qui sera, le 6 Juillet 1885, le premier être humain à être vacciné contre la rage.
Interview de Frank Macfarlane-Nurnet, découvreur australien du virus de la grippe et Prix Nobel de médecine 1960 : "J'ai fait toutes mes recherches en Australie, j'étais du genre solitaire et ça ne me disait rien de travailler comme les autres... En Australie, j'avais le champ libre...". Images d'archives de son Prix Nobel à Stockholm en 1960.
Explication des travaux de Frank Macarlane-Burnet, découvreur australien du virus de la grippe, et Prix Nobel de médecine 1960. Images d'illustration en laboratoire.
Explication du chef de service poliomyélite de l'Institut Pasteur à Paris des différentes étapes du combat (victorieux) contre cette maladie : "Ce véritable enfer qu'était le service de poliomyélite des enfants malades... Nous ne pouvions à une époque qu'essayer de réparer les dégâts et maintenir la vie... Et puis, comme dans les bons romans, le vaccin est arrivé..."
Beginning of an unlimited strike by the guards and on-call for the application of the "security rest" of the residents of the hospitals of France. In illustration, the typical day of one of them in Nice, Geoffrey VANBIERVLIET, intern in 3rd year. Alternation of comments on images of his activity at the Hospital de l'Archet and his interview. He explains: "We are tired, we would like it to end, but it will only end at 6:30 pm...on an average week, it will give 60 hours, not counting the guards". Further on, he continues: "The amputation of the salary linked to the guards would reduce, we all think, our purchasing power...".
Presentation at the Robert Debré Hospital, in Paris, of a daily day of Fernanda FRADE, a 5th year intern in pediatric surgery. Interview of Arnaud BONNARD, pediatric surgeon about interns, he explains: "They are in training because they do a subspecialty, the specialty of surgery, but they are already doctors at the base (...) They are indispensable." Interview with Fernanda FRADE about her professional choice: "I always wanted to be a pediatrician. That’s what I used to tell my pediatrician when I was little. I made that dream come true and I’m proud of it today."
Hospital residents are on strike to protest against their low wages. Presentation of the problems and responsibilities of an intern at the Broussais hospital in Paris. Interview of the intern Bertrand DOUSSET who explains: "We are not students, we are specialists in training, because we still have things to learn (...) we are primarily doctors and surgeons responsible...". Further he adds: "The system as it is offered to us, we do not question it, what we do not accept is to see devaluation in the salary sense of the term, in the hourly pricing sense of the term, the internal function...".
A reform of the public hospital is underway. One of the points of this reform, the "full-time", is addressed to hospital doctors and residents. Interviews with two residents of Paris hospitals who express their dissatisfaction with this reform.
About sixty internal doctors work within the CHI of Louviers-Val de Reuil. Interviews with some of them on the choice of their specialization and interview with Dr.Jean-Baptiste Michot, anesthesiologist-resuscitator.
Interview with a pediatric resident at the Calmette hospital in Lille. He explains how young doctors access the internship: "An intern is first a doctor, someone who has finished his seven years of medicine and who passes a competition, which links him for four years to the public hospital".
The city of Aulnay-sous-Bois, in Seine-Saint-Denis, is particularly affected by the increase in the consumption of nitrous oxide among young people. To curb this phenomenon, the municipality is targeting local businesses, which have banned the sale of this hilarious gas to miners. Municipal police officers also inform on the street about the risks of this gas. Séverine MAROUIN, first assistant in charge of security at the town hall of Aulnay sous bois, speaks about this. In a grocery store, municipal police officers remind people of the regulations. On the street, a young man with a hidden face testifies to a problem he had when taking nitrous oxide.
Report in Montpellier on this drug that wreaks havoc among the youngest, nitrous oxide, a gas that is very easily accessible, known for its hilarious virtues, but that can have devastating effects and that has become the object of a lucrative business. A young consumer testifies with his face hidden to explain how he gets it, very easily... A driving instructor believes that the authorities should address this problem. Another young man evokes the dangers of this gas.
A five-month investigation enabled the gendarmes of Mayenne to dismantle a drug trafficking specialized in the theft of anesthetic gas cylinders, in the hospitals of the region. This gas was destined to be sold at techno parties. This discovery shows the appearance of new dangerous practices in some rave parties. Dr Patrick FAYOLLE, head of the anesthesia department at the Laval hospital, describes the very harmful effects of this gas if it is inhaled pure. It may result in the death of the user.