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2017.03.29
Medical and veterinary entomology is a holistic science. Very early on in the history of human society, people became aware that there was a link between...
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2017.03.29
Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894), also known as the "tiger mosquito", originated in Southeast Asia. It can be recognized by the central line of white scales on...
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2017.02.02
On the African continent, diarrheal diseases are very frequent but their etiology is often unknown which does not allow an optimal care of the patients....
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2017.01.26
The Ebola epidemic that struck West Africa from 2013-2016 served as a reminder that the world is still very much at risk from exposure to infection. The...
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2017.01.12
In December 2015 a yellow fever epidemic broke out in Angola, subsequently giving rise to 7,300 suspected cases and nearly 400 deaths. A group of scientists...
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2016.09.22
Since the first cases of infection were identified in Brazil, in May 2015, the Zika virus has spread to over 46 countries in America. Several hypothesis are...
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2016.07.07
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS have identified two new strains of the HTLV-4 virus in two hunters who were bitten by gorillas in Gabon....
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2016.12.01
The number of newborns infected with Hepatitis B may be twice as high as HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
While the risk of mother-to-child transmission of Hepatitis...
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2016.12.15
Scientists studying hundreds of genome sequences of the rabies virus at the Institut Pasteur have shown that two major viral types – bat rabies and dog rabies...
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2016.11.08
An international coalition of scientists* involving teams from the Institut Pasteur, has revealed that adaptive mutations to the Ebola virus occurred during...