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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...
News
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...
Vidéo
2025.05.20
Why do mosquito bites itch so much?
Jeanne Fenouil, science writer at the Institut Pasteur, explains all about these fearsome little insects.
During...
Vidéo
2025.01.02
This festive season, bubbles are everywhere: in champagne, sodas and sparkling water. But do you know why they fascinate us so much?
Gabriel Lepousez, a...
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...
Document de presse
2024.11.21
With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy – using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections – fell...
News
2024.07.11
Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease transmitted by animals (a zoonosis). It is present worldwide, especially in tropical regions. The recent re-emergence of...
Portrait
2024.06.28
Arts or science?
After completing high school, Mathieu wasn't sure what direction to take. He liked science, but he was also interested in photography. After...
News
2024.05.22
There is an urgent need to include monitoring of microbial ecosystems in the environmental narrative
Philippe...