Marseille. Hôpital de la Timone. Au sein de l'unité de recherche spécialisée dans les maladies infectieuses, Didier Raoult, responsable du service bactériologie reçoit tous les jours des bactéries à identifier. Reportage en 2009, alors que 800 000 personnes en 4 semaines ont été touchées par l'épidémie de grippe.
L'épidémie de peste pulmonaire est apparue à Surat, dans l'Ouest de l'Inde et a continué de se propager. Le déplacement des Indiens qui cherchent à se protéger de la maladie ne fait qu'aggraver la situation.
Awareness campaign with an outdoor flash mob with the participation of 300 nurses in white coats dancing a madison and mimicking the good gestures of hand washing. Factual images and interviews of hospital staff on this prevention action.
Jacques ROBAEY, an entrepreneur from Dunkirk, invents a door that stays locked if you don’t wash your hands when you leave the toilet. Demonstration with the comment of the inventor.
A prevention campaign will be launched in hospitals in order to prevent more and more infections, causing many deaths in hospitals which are true culture broths. Factual images which alternate with the interviews of Georges OFFENSTADT, doctor, and Jean FROTTIER, professor of the hospital Saint-Antoine.
The tourism sector, already hard hit by the crisis, must now adapt to the problem of influenza A. The French have indeed less travelled outside our borders this summer and many today are worried, they fear contracting the virus during a stay abroad. The tour operators had to find solutions to reassure the candidates in the first place, especially about their cancellation conditions. Commentary on factual images and interviews Jean-Pierre MAS (AFAT-Voyages) and Vincent LHOSTE (Salon du Tourisme).
In Mayenne, due to foot-and-mouth disease, bins and mats to disinfect voters' shoes were installed in the polling stations of 4 municipalities around the Baroche-Gondouin. Commentary on factual images, and reaction (annoyed) of a resident.
Large-scale survey to identify all individuals potentially infected with the coronavirus. Explanations by Françoise WEBER (Director of the Health Watch Institute, INVS) and Arnaud FONTANET (Professor of Medicine, Epidemiologist, Institut Pasteur).
In the United States, the death of a man with Ebola has led to a real psychosis in the country. Airport screening will be strengthened, and the people who are involved in aircraft maintenance are concerned about their safety. Comment on factual images and illustration images alternating with the testimony of an airport employee.
One of the immediate measures to protect against Mexican swine flu, influenza A, is protective masks. Report in a Vosges company, Robé Médical in Remiremont, which sells them. Orders for masks, hydoalcoholic gels, sprays or disinfectant wipes increased. Interview with Antoine CHONION (CEO) on the state of supply and the low risk of shortage. He demonstrates the difference in protection between the surgical mask and the much more effective FFP2.
Tamiflu, a drug that can control avian influenza, is out of stock in pharmacies in our region. The authorities say that there is no point in rushing to the product, which is issued only by prescription. In the event of an epidemic, the State would ensure the distribution of medicines and equipment. Report in a pharmacy in Lille and at the regional hospital with an interview with a doctor, Daniel CAMUS, on the search for a vaccine in progress.
France is in the process of stockpiling antivirals for doctors and hospitals against avian influenza, which has not yet reached the country. Pharmacies are out of stock for antivirals (Tamiflu) and protective masks. Interview of a pharmacist, Cédric DELON, sharing his experience.
Face à la menace de grippe aviaire, le Tamiflu, un antiviral puissant, se fait de plus en plus rare. Les pharmaciens sont en rupture de stock tandis que des réserves ont été constituées par l'Etat en cas de pandémie. Interviews de Jérôme Golstenne (pharmacien), Marie Odile Huet (directrice d'un grossiste de médicaments à Gennevilliers), et du docteur Jean Paul Galinon (généraliste) sur le rôle des médecins de rassurer les patients.
In the event of an avian influenza pandemic, the French Ministry of Health has a sufficient stock of anti-viral drugs to handle all cases, according to Daniel Lévy Bruhl of the Institut national de veille sanitaire.
In the context of the risk of an influenza A, H1N1 epidemic, people rush on protective masks and Tamiflu (anti-viral drug). The antiviral distributor has suspended deliveries to pharmacies to deliver its supplies to hospitals and health authorities. A measure deemed more useful at a time when the pandemic is a threat and not yet a reality. A pharmacist from Dijon describes the excessive attitudes of panicked clients and Professor CHAVANET of the Dijon CHU reassures about the mortality of this virus remains quite low.
Report on the global influenza A pandemic H1/N1 reported by the World Health Organization at alert level 6. Explanations. Comments on images from the WHO meeting and illustration images alternated with excerpts from the speech by Dr Margaret CHAN, Director-General of the WHO.