Parisian diseases identified

28 May, 2011

Parisians are more likely to be affected by HIV, tuberculosis, childhood obesity, lung cancer, breast cancer and infant mortality than anywhere else in France. The regional health authority, ARS, has identified the diseases most specific to Paris: lung cancer in women in Paris is 20 per cent above the national average, despite there being the best specialists in the city; Parisians are twice as likely to catch tuberculosis as the rest of France