Since 1996, when bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was assessed as a possible human transmissible disease, a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), French people have entered into a long period of fear and avoidance of beef and bovine byproducts, which produced an unprecedented...

The increase in the thyroid cancer incidence in France observed over the last 20 years has raised public concern about its association with the 1986 nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl. At the request of French authorities, a first study sought to quantify the possible risk of thyroid...

The research described in this report was conducted to assess potential concerns among hesitant healthcare workers in Europe. It is part of a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) project entitled 'Comprehensive expert opinion on motivating hesitant population groups to...