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2025.09.12
Although it has been eradicated in Europe, plague still circulates in several regions of the world. Hundreds of cases are reported every year in Madagascar,...
News
2025.08.27
First gene therapy trial in France to treat childhood deafness
The Audiogene trial aims to correct the deficiency in a gene responsible for congenital...
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2025.07.22
On June 12-13, 2025, the Institut Pasteur hosted the first international conference on the risks and challenges associated with the creation of what are...
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2025.07.25
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is the leading cause of acute hepatitis, each year affecting approximately 20 million people worldwide and resulting in 30,...
News
2025.07.09
What exactly is causing the cases of severe gastrointestinal illness that first began to emerge in and around Saint-Quentin on June 6? The health authorities...
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2025.07.10
Update on chikungunya in mainland France in summer 2025
Several locally acquired cases of chikungunya have been detected in mainland France since the...
News
2025.05.08
Since 2022, the world has been grappling with a severe epizootic of avian influenza, affecting birds and sometimes also farmed mammals, primarily caused by...
News
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...
Vidéo
2025.04.07
Measles explodes in 2025: what do we do?
Nearly 200 cases in France this year, twice as many as last year! This ultra-contagious virus infects the respiratory...
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...