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Tourism growing in French Guiana
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ST. JOSEPH ISLAND, French Guiana -- Thick tropical vines wrap
around rusty jail bars and trees grow inside cells in the 19th
century prison on this far-flung island off South America -- a relic
of French Guiana's dark past as a penal colony where thousands of
prisoners died of disease.
The prison, and many like it on the mainland in French Guiana,
closed more than 50 years ago. But their history haunts the French
Guianese, who are eager for the world to discover their vast rain
forests and eclectic culture of European lifestyles fused with the
many traditions brought by Caribbean, Asian and ...
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Severe acquired toxoplasmosis caused by wild cycle of Toxoplasma gondii, French Guiana.(THE AMAZON REGION: DISPATCHES)(Report)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; French Guiana is a French territory in South America...patients without immunosuppression, but in French Guiana, it is a major public health problem...toxoplasmosis had been reported in French Guiana, in 1992 (1) and 1997 (2). However...
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Reemergence of dengue virus type 4, French Antilles and French Guiana, 2004-2005.(DISPATCHES)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; ...reemerged in Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana. Phylogenetic analyses of strains isolated...Americas: Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana. Martinique and Guadeloupe are 2 Caribbean...represent the French West Indies, and French Guiana is located southeast of the ...
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Tuberculosis in the Caribbean: Using Spacer Oligonucleotide Typing to Understand Strain Origin and Transmission.
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; ...tuberculosis on Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana. In more than a third of the 218 strains...period (1994-96) and for Martinique and French Guiana during a 2-year period (1995-96). most...Methods Guadeloupe Martinique, and French Guiana have major demographic difference...
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Mercury exposure in French Guiana: levels and determinants.
Magazine article from: Archives of Environmental Health
; PRODUCTION of gold in French Guiana started in the 1850s. Production...of gold have been produced in French Guiana, and 280 tons of mercury have...recommended levels[2]--in most parts of French Guiana. In 1994, the authors sought...
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Dengue spatial and temporal patterns, French Guiana, 2001.(Research)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; ...dengue fever outbreak in Iracoubo, French Guiana, we recorded the location of all patients...in Iracoubo, a small town located in French Guiana, an overseas French administrative unit between Suriname and North Brazil. In French Guiana, DF is recognized as endemic, with...
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GOLD CONCESSION ACCORD.
Newspaper article from: Caribbean Update
; ...to the Paul Isnard gold project in French Guiana: The area covered by the agreement...exploration permit held by Guyanor in western French Guiana, covering a total area of 216 square...in the French Department of Guyane (French Guiana) and is focused on the identification...
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First Case of Yellow Fever in French Guiana since 1902.
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; The first case of yellow fever in French Guiana since 1902 was reported in March 1998...and Haemagoggus sp. are the vectors. French Guiana, located between Brazil and Surinam...However, no case has been reported in French Guiana since 1902, although a serologic survey...
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Resistance to dihydroartemisinin.(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; ...that was observed in isolates from French Guiana (2). Worth noting is that the association...confirmed in an isolate collected in French Guiana in 2005; that isolate had an ICs0 for...in vitro resistance to artemether in French Guiana 3 years after the first cases is of...
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Leishmaniasis among gold miners, French Guiana.(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; ...of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in French Guiana (1). A case of CL was considered confirmed...65 x higher than anywhere else in French Guiana. We tested samples from 12 random CL...constitutes a risk factor for CL, at least in French Guiana and probably in all Amazonian rainforests...
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Malaria outbreak in troops returning from French Guiana.(LETTERS)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; ...returning from a 108-day operation in French Guiana. We conducted a retrospective cohort...questions concerning operations in French Guiana (dates, locations) and preventive measures...surveillance). The 40-person mission in French Guiana (Operation Anaconda) took place from...
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