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2026.05.26
#1- How many species of ticks are there in the world, and how many in France?
Ticks are arachnids (like spiders or scorpions) belonging to the subclass Acari...
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2026.05.05
In the twenty years since the tiger mosquito was first reported in mainland France in 2004, it has conquered four-fifths of the country. How has it been able...
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2026.02.26
Salmonella enterica serovar Panama, one of the most common causative agents of non-typhoidal Salmonella disease in France's overseas territories, is...
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2025.11.12
This article was updated on December 2, 2025 with the latest epidemiological data from Santé publique France published on November 13, 2025.
#1 - What is...
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2025.07.11
Article updated on June 1, 2026
Of the multiple mosquito species encountered globally, some act as vectors transmitting infectious diseases to humans...
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2025.05.29
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia...
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2025.05.08
Updated on December 19, 2025.
Since 2022, the world has been grappling with a severe epizootic of avian influenza, affecting birds and sometimes also farmed...
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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
2024.11.12
Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL) and France’s Institut Pasteur have signed a Memorandum of...
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2024.09.18
Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can be severe or even fatal for vulnerable individuals, such as unvaccinated infants. People...