A cluster of acute diarrhea suspected to be cholera in French travelers in Haiti, December 2010.

A cluster of 21 cases of watery diarrhea suspected to be cholera that involved French military policemen and young volunteers occurring in the context of the Haiti cholera outbreak is described. The attack rate (AR) was higher among young volunteers (71.4%) than among policemen (15.

[The pediatrician's emergency box].

Every private pediatrician must be available to respond at pediatrics emergencies over thinking action in acute situations, which can quickly worsen. With his knowledge and a vigorous experience on field, he must possess minimum material and drugs, put in an emergency box to talking face up to distress's situations really or feeling like that by parents or in close circle of child. Private pediatrician is a link of a care chain and/or assistance, to be waiting that wounded arrive to hospital emergency unit or in a specialized service, when he will be taken in charge by SMUR team.

[Severe bacterial infections in children. Survey by the pediatric mobile intensive care unit AP/HP in the Ile-de-France area].

This study involves 106 infants (neonatal period ruled out), victims of severe bacterial infections managed from 1st january 1998 to 30 April 2001 by the four paediatric Mobile Intensive Care Unit (P.M.I.