Epidemiology
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2021.09.30
In August 2019, a case of rabies believed to have been transmitted by a bat led to the death of a patient in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. This...
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2021.09.14
Africa2020 Season, launched in December 2020 by French President Emmanuel Macron and ended in summer 2021, has taken place throughout France, involving both...
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2021.08.19
Monkeypox is an emerging and neglected infectious disease caused by the Monkeypox virus (MPXV). The disease has a similar clinical presentation to smallpox,...
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2021.07.01
On April 7, 2021, the European Medical Agency (EMA) concluded that thrombosis in combination with thrombocytopenia has been identified as a likely adverse...
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2021.05.27
A study conducted by the University Hospital of Strasbourg (HUS) in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur, published as a preprint on medRxiv, has led to a...
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2021.05.31
Diphtheria is a severe infection caused in humans by toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria. If left untreated, it leads to death in 5 to 25...
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2021.05.20
Rabies is still responsible for approximately 60,000 deaths in humans each year. The bat-borne virus EBL1a, related to rabies, rarely affects humans, but a...
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2020.10.16
Hantaviruses are rodent-borne viruses causing serious zoonotic outbreaks worldwide for which no treatment is available. X-ray structures of the hantavirus...
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2020.07.09
Diagnosis of sleeping sickness, a neglected tropical disease caused by African trypanosomes, relies on the detection of parasites in blood. Following their...
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2021.05.03
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Emerging and re-emerging viruses are key players among the different pathogens that have caused recent epidemics, as attested by several...