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Changes in household food and drink purchases following restrictions on the advertisement of high fat, salt, and sugar products across the Transport for London network: A controlled interrupted time series analysis
in February 2019, on HFSS purchases. Methods and findings Over 5 million take-home food and drink purchases were recorded by 1,970 households (London [intervention], n = 977; North of England ...
COVID-19 mortality, excess mortality, deaths per million and infection fatality ratio, Belgium, 9 March 2020 to 28 June 2020
Keywords: COVID-19 Excess mortality nursing homes Abstract: Background COVID-19 mortality, excess mortality, deaths per million population (DPM), infection fatality ratio (IFR) and case fatality ratio (CFR) ...
SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance in Belgian Wastewaters
by the national public health authority to monitor SARS-CoV-2 circulation in the Belgian population. Over 5 million inhabitants representing 45% of the Belgian population were monitored throughout 42 ...
Surveillance épidémiologique de la rougeole. Morbillivirus – 2020/2021
• L’incidence estimée pour l’ensemble de la Belgique, après exclusion des cas importés, était de 0,4 cas/million d’habitants en 2021 et de 4,0 cas/million d’habitants en 2020, contre 38,1 cas/million en 2019. ...
Preparedness & response for emergency situations: joined forces of H2020 projects in the PREPARE cluster
EU-funded H2020 projects, with a combined funding of €72 million, have united to form the PRE paredness and resPonse for emergency situAtions in euRopE (PREPARE) cluster. Each of the thirteen projects is ...
Global change in hepatitis C virus prevalence and cascade of care between 2015 and 2020: a modelling study.
estimated a global prevalence of viraemic HCV infection of 0·7% (95% UI 0·7-0·9), corresponding to 56·8 million (95% UI 55·2-67·8) infections, on Jan 1, 2020. This number represents a decrease of 6·8 million ...
Œuvrer à moins de souffrance animale en science est un devoir éthique
l’échange de savoirs entre scientifiques. Entretien avec sa responsable. En Belgique, environ un demi-million d’animaux de laboratoire sont utilisés chaque année à des fins scientifiques. Pour réduire ce ...
Flanders and Brussels join forces to tackle animal testing
computer models In Belgium, about half a million test animals are used for scientific purposes every year, most often in biomedical research into new therapies for diseases such as cancer. In addition, the use of ...
Variability in the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and mortality by exposure assessment method and covariate adjustment: A census-based country-wide cohort study
nearly 5.5 million adults aged ≥30 (mean follow-up: 9.97 years). Annual mean concentrations for fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), black carbon (BC) and ozone (O3) were assessed at ...
Assessing the burden of Taenia solium cysticercosis in Burundi, 2020
calculate the 95% uncertainty interval (UI) for each parameter and perform sensitivity analyses. Results. In Burundi, 4.26 million USD (95% UI, 1,858,308–8,190,951) were estimated as economic impact due to T. ...