Zika virus disease is a mosquito-borne disease caused by zika virus, On 1st February 2016 the World Health Organization has declared the Zika virus (Z...

Until recently there has been no truly effective prevention against dengue except avoiding getting bit. Sanofi has produced a dengue fever vaccine tha...

According to the French Social security code article L341-1, when a worker has lost two-thirds of his workforce, because of an illness, he is entitled...

An occupational disease is the consequence of exposure of varying duration to a risk that exists during the normal course of an individual’s job. A di...

Is chest X-ray examination obsolete ? Whether the patient is an employee or a craftsman, active or retired, the examinationsto which he is submitted w...

Infectious pleural pathology , benign pleural disease or  malignant pleural lesion can be recognised as  an occupational disease. Bookmark on Deliciou...

The définition of occupational accident and commuting accident is given by the article L.411 of French social security code. Bookmark on Delicious Dig...

 Tuberculosis is increasing  among caregivers : this disease can be recognised as an occupational disease  if the illness meets the medical, occupatio...

Several tables of occupational diseases compensate primary bronchogenic carcinoma. Smoking is no obstacle for recognition and compensation.  Bookmark ...

The emphysema is a chronic illness  : the lung is distended, it loses its elasticity because of alveoli retention.  For some professionnal exposures, ...