Moselle: risk of avian influenza
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Covid: the eye, a path of contamination?
The transmission of coronavirus through the mucous membrane of the eye is suggested by many clues. Dr. Jean-Michel Wendling, a specialist in occupational health prevention in Strasbourg, France, gives some ideas for reflection and prevention. Interview.
COVID: three scientists explain the resurgence of the virus
Pascal Mensah, Stéphane Odasso and Jean-Michel Wendling* state that the risk of “aerosol” contamination is unlikely. The source of contamination is elsewhere. It is twofold: dirty hands towards the mouth or eyes and big sputters towards the glass and the plate. Explanations and cross-maintenance.
COVID : three scientists explain the resurgence of the virus
Pascal Mensah, Stéphane Odasso and Jean-Michel Wendling* state that the risk of “aerosol” contamination is unlikely. The source of contamination is elsewhere. It is twofold: dirty hands towards the mouth or eyes and big sputters towards the glass and the plate. Explanations and cross-maintenance.
Leaving Paris for the countryside… A city-dweller’s dream not (yet?) a statistical reality
In the year 2017, 128,000 people moved out of the capital (while 95,000 moved in). Most recently, 200,000 Parisians left their city during the confinement. But leaving Paris does not mean leaving the Paris region. (Olivier Léon, Insee).
The galley of the shipwrecked Covid-19
Whether they are French expatriates in faraway lands, tourists or foreigners stranded in France, there are several thousand of them being held far from home. Here are some examples.
Joan of Arc and the fake news (6/6) ” I discovered the skull of Joan of Arc “
At the beginning of the 21st century, a Ukrainian scientist, Dr. Sergei Gorbenko, claimed to have discovered the remains of the Virgin Mary in the Basilica of Cléry-Saint-André, near Orléans. One more fake news?
Joan of Arc and the fake news (5/6) La Pucelle returns five years after the bonfire
Jeanne didn’t die at the stake in Rouen. The proof? She reappears five years later and leads a well-informed public life as attested by numerous documents.
Joan of Arc and the fake news (4/6) Twenty-six months of public life
The eventful life of The Maid is well known. Yet it lasted only a little over two years.
Jeanne d’Arc and fake news (3/6) Who designed Operation Pucelle?
The ploy of the envoy from heaven to save the kingdom of France was conceived by an exceptional woman: Yolande of Aragon, Duchess of Anjou, Queen of the Four Kingdoms. The operation was masterfully executed by another exceptional woman: the Pucelle d’Orléans.
Joan of Arc and the fake news (2/6) The Hundred Years War: why?
To understand the Johannine epic, we must go back to the context of the Hundred Years’ War and find out why Joan wanted, one fine day in 1428, to go and meet the king.
Joan of Arc and the fake news (1/6)
No, Joan of Arc was not a shepherdess, no she did not die on a great pyre in Rouen, no she was not called d’Arc, but Joan the Virgin. To put an end to the fake news of the 15th century that our historians have been indiscriminately repeating ever since.