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2025.04.22
In early April 2025, a case of mpox was reported in the United Kingdom – and the patient had not been to Africa or come into contact with other infected...
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2025.03.08
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Did you know that only 20% of Wikipedia biographies are dedicated to women? This...
News
2025.02.25
"I've believed in tunneling nanotubes since the beginning!" says Chiara Zurzolo, Head of the Membrane Traffic and Pathogenesis Unit at the Institut Pasteur....
Vidéo
2025.02.10
Dive into the heart of the trypanosome, the parasite responsible for sleeping sickness!
Transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, this disease affects over 30...
Document de presse
2025.01.31
Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) as a public health problem.
Despite health...
News
2024.12.19
In 1896, Charles Achard and Raoul Bensaude, both physicians within the Paris Public Hospital Network, identified an infection in patients presenting with...
Document de presse
2024.12.06
Scientists from the National Reference Center for Vibrios and Cholera at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with the Centre hospitalier de Mayotte, have...
Report
2024.12.11
The first cases of mpox were observed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1970, then spread to a number of other African countries. In the Central African...
News
2024.12.09
In September 2023, the Institut Pasteur invited experts involved in managing the COVID-19 crisis in 13 Western European countries to a meeting in Paris. The...
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2024.07.04
What precise mechanisms do coronaviruses use to infect us? More than four years after the infamous SARS-CoV-2 emerged in humans, many scientists are still...