On the eve of the launch of the influenza A vaccination campaign, many French people remain extremely sceptical or even suspicious. This reluctance is often shared by physicians themselves. In hospitals where vaccination began three weeks ago, only 10% of caregivers are vaccinated. Commentary on factual images alternating with a microsidewalk and the interview of Dr.Rémy ASSATHIANY, pediatrician, opposed to the systematic vaccination of children.
Report on the controversy concerning the dangerousness of the DT-Polio vaccine grouping 6 vaccines including 3 not mandatory. A petition was launched by Dr JOYEUX, a cancer specialist. The latter talks about the undeniable risks associated with the hepatitis B vaccine and denounces a hidden business behind this hexavalent + vaccine that is costly for families.
In an infant medical clinic, a professor talks about the minimum risk of vaccination accidents and the excessive dramatization of the media on this subject. He then recommended, especially for smallpox, that children be vaccinated from an early age.
Testimony of Christine AUBERE, former professional football player, contaminated by the AIDS virus and engaged today in prevention with young people. She tells how this virus changed her daily life.
Testimony of Gisèle LASCOUX who contracted hepatitis C by transfusion. She gives us her suffering to live with a virus that rhymes with exclusion and loneliness.
Report on a practice that has been ongoing for several months in some Parisian hospitals: patients had to bring their own sheets before receiving care. The PA-HP decided to open an internal investigation. Patient testimony and interview with Jean Charles GRUPELI, Head of the Central Service of the AP-HP Laundries on possible difficulties of communication and distribution of linen in hospitals.
Reportage sur le CTTH Beauvais de (Centre de Textile Technique Hospitalier). Il traite le linge de tous les établissements de l'Oise et de l'Eure et lave 19 tonnes de linge d'hôpital chaque jour. Interview d'une salariée, agent de tri, sur le traitement du linge. Interview de Thierry Desenzani, ingénieur responsable du Centre de Textile Hospitalier, sur le regroupement et les gains en matière de productivité.
Report on the new laundry at the Le Mans hospital. Robert PAUMIER, head of the laundry service, mentions the improvement of the working conditions of the staff and the maintenance of the linen "rid of all possible microbes".
Report on the new laundry at the Le Mans hospital. Interview with Guy DELSOL, Deputy Director of the Centre Hospitalier on the quality and modernity of the services practiced in this factory.
Concerning the hygiene of the French, interview of a saleswoman in the perfume department of a department store. She explains that she is asked for less soap and more perfume. An employee of a laundromat expresses herself on the dirt of the laundry brought to her.
La chanteuse Line Renaud a annoncé la création de l'Association des artistes contre le SIDA qui aura pour but de trouver des fonds pour lutter contre la maladie et convaincre le public que le SIDA n'est pas une maladie honteuse. Commentaire sur des images de la conférence de presse de Line Renaud, interviews de la chanteuse et du docteur Chermann, Institut Pasteur : l'aide financière de l'association sera un ballon d'oxygène pour la recherche.
Pour limiter la propagation du virus de la grippe A, on a installé des distributeurs automatiques d'eau bénite. Cette solution plus hygiénique a déjà été mise en place dans une petite église de Lombardie en Italie. Interview du prêtre sur l'accueil de ce nouveau bénitier et de son inventeur dont les ventes ont récemment explosé.
Report on the manufacture of hygiaphone screens by a small company in the Meuse to fight against the spread of the influenza A virus. This device can be implemented in all places welcoming the public. Interview with Jean FRANCOIS, CEO of Formxl, on the simple ergonomics of its protective windows and the prioritisation of its orders compared to the current health emergency.
Report on the anti-contamination door handle whose sales recently exploded with the threat of influenza A pandemic in France. Interview with designer Richard HOUIS on the solidity and ergonomics of his product validated by the medical community. Visit of the company Grosseron, whose doors have been equipped with these handles. Reaction of Laurent FLEURY, boss of the company, satisfied with his purchase.
Presentation of a new therapy to combat gloom, melancholy, depression: light therapy, which cures these ailments by light. Interview of a patient and the psychiatrist James CONSTANT.
French researchers have discovered a key point of nicotine addiction in the brain. This discovery could lead to new methods of smoking cessation. But the most interesting is elsewhere: some nicotine derivatives could be used to fight diseases like Alzheimer’s disease. Images in a research laboratory at the Institut Pasteur with interviews with Clément LENA, Molecular Neurobiology Unit of the Institute and Michael WILLIAMS of the Abbott Laboratory in Chicago.
For the first time, researchers from the Institut Pasteur have sequenced the chikungunya virus. It is a mutant virus, born of the encounter, in Reunion, between an African mosquito and a mosquito native to Asia. This mutation would explain the mosquito’s great contagiousness. Images of the island of Reunion where the next demoustication campaign is being prepared with the interviews of Anna-Bella FAILLOUX, entomologist and Sylvain BRISSE, researcher at the Institut Pasteur in Paris on their research.