Hundreds of health workers struggle daily with no resources in sub-Saharan Africa against a devastating illness, cholera. The stigma of having cholera and the magical interpretations persist in countries such as Guinea Bissau, although more than one hundred years we know the mechanism of transmission and the treatment.

Nearly 50,000 come forward to be tested for HIV in Kakamega, Kenya in a ground-breaking campaign aimed to combat the areas three biggest public health threats at once: HIV/AIDS, malaria, and diarrheal disease. In this film, follow the lives of several individuals in the aftermath of the campaign.

A new scientific revolution is ongoing ! Our genome, this "great book of life " exultantly deciphered in the late 90's, brought few answers to our questioning.Cloned cats of different colors ? Real twins developing different pathologies ? The genome is in fact only a part of a much larger, and still unknown, frame named Epigenome by the scientists. Each of us have an Epigenome in constant evolution, according our way of life, our diet, our environment. Indeed this Epigenetic revolution deeply changes our understanding of the living. It opens a new point of view over aging and disease.

In 2007, more than 15 million people went to one of the 625 emergency units in France. A frequenting that doubled since the last 15 years...Thus, no surprise that a patient wait around 4 hours before seing a doctor. Did emergency units turn into a non schedulded consulting service? To understand what is at stake for patients and medical staff, we've been in total immersion in the emergency unit of Rouen's Hospital during 24 hours. How can we relieve the emergencies? Maybe with the French "maisons médicales de garde" or as in Belgium, with a financial sanction.

The new season of "Etat de Santé" will start with a special edition on the H1N1 flu. Are we ready to tackle this pandemic disease ? According experts the virus seems to be very virulent. Almost 40% of French people could be infected. How can we face it ? How to avoid school and companies crippling ? In 1918, France faced the Spanish disease and the last showdown with a pandemic disease was in 1968. Since that time, France improved its public health reaction. Will these improvements be sufficient ? Interlocutor : Antoine Flahault, a well-known specialist on flu and pandemic diseases.