Influenza, a very common viral disease, was discovered by doctors Lépine and Muller on January 17, 1949. Often benign, it can lead to serious complications and is even responsible for several thousand deaths per year worldwide
Reportage sur l'épidémie de grippe qui sévit au Japon, notamment sur les mesures sanitaires mises en oeuvre pour limiter la propagation de la grippe asiatique.
Humorous subject: the Italian flu epidemic is rampant in France. Interview with Professor and Chief Medical Officer Pierre DAC who gives his advice to protect himself from it.
Report on the influenza outbreak in France. Residents of a retirement home in Moselle were confined because two thirds of them contracted the virus. Comment on factual images of the retirement home of Vic-sur-Seille alternating with the interview of Corinne PARIS, deputy director of EHPAD, then images in a retirement home in Bonneuil-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne) alternating interviews with an 82-year-old patient with the virus, Noëlle CAMPOS, a health care worker, and Claire CAROLI, a health care provider.
Report on the influenza epidemic in France. In recent weeks, the flu virus has appeared. This is an unusual situation for physicians, with the flu epidemic usually starting around February and March. The northern parts of the country are the most affected. Comment on factual images interspersed by the interview of Carole FAYA (doctor), David LEVY-BRUHL (idem), Avi NIDAN (pharmacist) and Christian PERRONNE (professor of infectiology).
Update on the influenza A vaccination campaign through the centres of Lyon, Toulouse or Suresnes. Different places and practices in different cities and lack of volunteers, while six million French people are invited to get vaccinated. It is necessary to rely on the facilitation of reception to convince the 79% of French people opposed to vaccination. The commentary on factual images alternates with the testimony of a man who would like to be vaccinated but did not receive a good one, the interview of Henri GUARRIGUES, head of vaccination center in Toulouse, and the testimony of a child who has just been vaccinated to protect his little brother.
Influenza vaccination campaign launched. Comment on factual and archival images, micro-sidewalk and interviews Daniel LEVY-BRUHL (epidemiologist at INVS) and François BRICAIRE (infectiologist at Pitié Salpêtrière).
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 health care workers are vaccinated. The example of a neonatal service in Créteil. To show the example, the Minister of Health, Roselyne BACHELOT, will be vaccinated tomorrow. Comment on factual images alternating with a microsidewalk and the interview of doctor Rémy ASSATHIANY, pediatrician, opposed to the systematic vaccination of children and of doctor Claude DANAN, of the neonatal resuscitation service of the Centre hospitalier intercommunal de Créteil on the vaccination of nurses.
Report on the current influenza epidemic in France. A comment on factual images and illustration images alternates with the interviews of Dr Pascal CHANSARD, vice-president of "SOS Médecins", Monia KHEDIR, general practitioner, and Régine fière, vaccinated employee of the shelter for elderly dependants (Ehpad) Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours in Lyon.
Several hospitals have launched the White Plan to deal with the emergency of the influenza epidemic. In Troyes, beds were added, caregivers were recalled, and activities were deprogrammed. In Metz, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, a hundred patients came to the emergency room. Comment on factual images and interviews Josiane BILS (Director of Care Troyes Hospital) and Martine MOUGEOT (Head of Care Robert Schuman Hospital in Metz).
The influenza epidemic is this early and particularly virulent year. The proportion of hospitalized patients is significant: 80% of patients over 75 years of age must be treated in hospital. During a fields visit, the Minister of Health Marisol TOURAINE explains that non-emergency care must be deprogrammed in case of epidemic or heat wave. The commentary on factual images, infographics, alternates with the Minister’s interview.
Report at the hospital in Garches where the staff of the hospital Poincaré began to be vaccinated against influenza A. Pedagogical work was necessary because vaccination is scary and a third of the staff is still reluctant. Comment on factual images interspersed by the interview of Jérôme SALOMON (professor of medicine), Pierre CARLI (idem) and Jean-Marie LE GUEN (chairman of the AP-HP Board of Directors).
An update on the influenza epidemic in France. Commentary on factual images and interviews Doctor Marcel DADOIT (general practitioner), his medical secretary, and Cécile VILLEPRAND (pharmacist).
The flu epidemic is reviving the controversy around the mandatory vaccination of caregivers. The medical world is divided: the order of doctors is favorable to vaccination, nurses propose to target sensitive places, and health authorities hesitate to impose a vaccine that does not have an optimal effectiveness. The commentary on illustration images alternates with interviews with Sylvie VAN DER WERF, director of the National Influenza Reference Centre at the Institut Pasteur, Didier BORNICHE, President of the Council of the Order of Nurses, and Christian CHIDIAC, Chairman of the High Council of Public Health.
Report in Lyon and Paris on the organisation of influenza A vaccinations in saturated and overburdened vaccination centres. Comment on factual images that alternate with a microsidewalk.
Update on the progress of the winter influenza epidemic in France. Comment on factual images and interviews Doctor Antoine LEVENEUR (general practitioner in Caen), Gilbert LANDAIS (administrative director of supermarket in Nantes) and Christelle LEVEQUE (fund manager).