Yellow fever
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2025.07.10
Learn more with our disease sheet on CHIKUNGUNYA
Update on chikungunya in mainland France in summer 2025
Several locally acquired cases of chikungunya have...
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...
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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...
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...
Vidéo
2025.04.04
Meningitis: warning signs!
200 cases in France since January? Yes, but... This figure concerns invasive meningococcal infections, a 25-year record. But not all...
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...
Vidéo
2025.02.04
Bronchiolitis, a respiratory infection affecting infants, is caused in 60-80% of cases by the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). It begins as a cold with...
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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...
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2024.07.02
Climate change, globalization and the movement of people and animals are increasing the risk of these so-called "vector-borne" diseases, which are usually...
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2024.06.25
The Institut Pasteur, an independent, non-profit international research institute, is the world leader in the research of viruses and micro-organisms, as...