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Questions de santé

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Health issues

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Épidémies

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Epidemics

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Périls sanitaires

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Health scares

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Une maladie

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A disease
An illness
A sickness

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Souffrir d’une maladie

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To suffer from disease

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Mourir du cancer

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To die of cancer

To die from cancer

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Cancérigène

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Carcinogenic

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Une maladie grave

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A serious disease

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Un virus

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A virus

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Contracter un virus

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To contract a virus

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Contracter une maladie

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To contract a disease

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Des bactéries

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Bacteria

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Un microbe

Un germe

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A germ

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Contagieux

Infectieux

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Contagious
Catching
Infectious

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Contaminer

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To contaminate

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Muter

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To mutate

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Un danger pour la santé

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A health hazard

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Un fléau

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A curse
A plague
A scourge

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WHO

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The World Health Organization

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Variole

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Smallpox

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The first disease in history to be eliminated by human efforts (1980)

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Smallpox

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Encourager

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To boost

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Le cancer du poumon

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Lung cancer

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Le cancer du sein

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Breast cancer

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Le cancer de la peau

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Skin cancer

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La malaria

Le paludisme

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Malaria

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La peste

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Plague

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Le choléra

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Cholera

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La variole

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Smallpox

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Une maladie sexuellement transmissible

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A sexually transmitted disease (STD)

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Une maladie vénérienne

MST

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A venereal disease

VD

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La maladie d’alzheimer

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alzeihemer’s disease

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La maladie de Parkinson

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Parkinson’s disease

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Une maladie neurodégénérative

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A neurodegenerative disease

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Syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère

SRAS

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Sévère Acute Respiratory Syndrome

SARS

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Aigu

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Acute

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Amorphe

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Forllistless

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Gonflé

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Bloated

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Répandu

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Widespread

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Se flétrir

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To shrivel

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Attraper la grippe

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To go down with the flu

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Etre contaminé par un virus

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To be infected by a virus

To be infected with a virus

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Etre porteur d’un virus

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To carry a virus

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Le système immunitaire

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The immune system

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Un porteur

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A carrier

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Un symptôme

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A symptom

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Tousser

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To cough

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Avoir de la température

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To have a temperature

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Avoir de la fièvre

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To have a fever

To run a fever

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Une épidémie

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An epidemic

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Une pandémie

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A pandemic

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Éclater

Se déclarer

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To break out

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L’ampleur de l’épidémie

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The scope of the epidemic

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L’étendue de l’épidémie

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The extent of the epidemic

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Affecter un pays

Toucher un pays

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To affect a country

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Toucher 20% de la population

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To afflict 20% of the population

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La zone la plus durement touchée

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The hardest-hit area

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Éradiquer

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To eradicate

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Enrayer une épidémie

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To check an epidemic

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Se propager

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To spread

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La propagation d’un virus

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The spread of a virus

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Endémique

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Endemic

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Dépourvu

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Destitute

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When was “médecins sans frontières” created?

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1971

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Protester

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To speak out

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La grippe

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Flu

Influenza

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Le virus de la grippe A

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The A virus

The H1N1 virus

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La grippe porcine

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Swine flu
Pig flu
H1N1 flu

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La grippe aviaire

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Bird flu
Avian flu
Avian influenza H5N1

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Douche de grippe

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Flu strain

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Un cas de grippe aviaire

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A case of avian flu

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Un foyer de grippe aviaire

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An outbreak of avian flu

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Le SIDA

Le syndrome d’immunodéficience acquise

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AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome

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Contracter le SIDA

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To develop AIDS

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Un malade du SIDA

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An AIDS sufferer

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Séropositif

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HIV-positive

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Faire passer un test de dépistage du SIDA à quelqu’un

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To screen somebody for AIDS

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Un centre de dépistage du SIDA

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A HIV screening centre

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Un test de dépistage

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A screening test

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Le sperme

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Sperm

Semen

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Avoir des rapports non protégés

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To have unprotected sex

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Un préservatif

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A condom

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L’abstinence

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Abstinence

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La fidélité

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Faithfulness

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Une aiguille

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A needle

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Les anti-rétroviraux

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Anti-retroviral drugs

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La trithérapie

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Triple therapy

Combination therapy

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Imprécis

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Fuzzy

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Compenser

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To trump

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Un traitement médical

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Medical treatment

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Les personnels de santé

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Medical staff

Health workers

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secret médical

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Medical confidentiality

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Une infection nosocomiale

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A hospital-acquired infection

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MRSA

Un staphylocoque résistant à la méthicilline

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MRSA

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Une bactérie mulot-résistante

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A superbug

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Prescrire

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To prescribe

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Une ordonnance

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A prescription

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Un médecin généraliste

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À general practitioner

A GP

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Un chirurgien

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A surgeon

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Se faire opérer

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To have surgery

To have an operation

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Diagnostiquer

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To diagnose

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Un diagnostic

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Diagnosis

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Guérir un patient

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To cure a patient

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Un remède

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A remedy

A cure

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Un médicament

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A drug
A medicine
A medication

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Un médicament générique

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A generic drug

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Un antalgique

Un analgésique

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A painkiller

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Un effet secondaire

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A side effect

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Une piqure

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An injection

A shot

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Prendre des antibiotiques

Etre sous antibiotiques

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To be on antibiotics

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Un laboratoire pharmaceutique

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A pharmaceutical laboratory

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Des produits pharmaceutiques

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Pharmaceuticals

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Un vaccin

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A vaccine

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Un vaccin contre la grippe

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A flu vaccine

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Vacciner

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To vaccinate

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Une campagne de vaccination

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A vaccination campaign

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Mettre quelqu’un en quarantaine

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To quarantine somebody

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Se rétablir

Guérir

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To recover

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Guérison

Rétablissement

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Recovery

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Rechuter

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To relapse

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Nocif

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Harmful

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Taudis

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Slums

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Avide

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Greedy

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Une alerte à l’intoxication alimentaire

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A food scare

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Un péril sanitaire

Une alerte aux risques sanitaires

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A health scare

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Épizootie

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An epizootic disease

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La fièvre aphteuse

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Food-and-mouth disease

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L’encéphalopathie bovine spongiforme

L’ESB

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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

BSE

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La maladie de la vache folle

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Mad-cow disease

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La maladie de Creutzfeldt Jacob (MCJ)

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Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD)

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Une maladie à prions

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A prion disease

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La dioxine

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Dioxin

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Le scandale du poulet à la dioxine

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The dioxin chicken scandal

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La traçabilité

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Traceability

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Iode

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Iodine

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Se désintégrer

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To decay

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Déclencher

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To unleash

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La santé publique

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Public health

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Les soins médicaux

Les services de santé

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Health care

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Les responsables de la santé publique

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Public health officials

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Les autorités sanitaires

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The health authorities

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Le système de santé

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The health care system

The health system

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Les services de santé

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Health services

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Les dépenses de santé

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Health expenses

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