President François Hollande said Thursday that the rainfall and floods were "very serious" and linked them to global warming.
The move comes after years of reports of serious injuries linked to the devices, including infections, pain and other complications.
The outcome of the current Harvard investigation is unknown, but serious transgressions linked to Crimson athletes have not gone unnoticed.
On Friday the agency said it had now identified 3,000 serious players linked to people-smuggling in Europe, including a number of Britons.
Their arrest last year, along with other serious crimes linked to the gang, drew negative attention to Nashville's Kurdish population, which is estimated to be about 10,000 strong.
The evidence is emerging of an extraordinary number of players struggling with lifelong physical debilitation, depression, dementia and many other serious problems linked to their playing days.
Serious illnesses linked to obesity, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and stroke, are set to cost the UK economy £20bn over the next decade, studies suggest.
The lama, Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche, the first senior Buddhist monk to face a serious charge linked to last year's demonstrations, is accused of illegally possessing weapons, his lawyer said.
About 1% of the population has coeliac disease, a serious genetically linked autoimmune disease in which the small bowel is inflamed and made leaky by gluten, causing diarrhoea, weight loss, anaemia, osteoporosis and a small increased risk of bowel cancer.
