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2025.05.08
What is avian influenza?
The term avian influenza actually refers to several related phenomena. First, it indicates an infection in birds with an influenza...
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...
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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...
Report
2024.05.03
On April 26, 2024, the World Health Organization held a high-level meeting at the Institut Pasteur to highlight the importance of tackling meningitis, a...
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2021.10.18
From Wednesday, September 29th to Thursday, October 1st the international conference "COVID-19, Advances and Remaining Challenges" was held at the Institut...
News
2022.07.11
In particular, the year 2021 was again marked by the COVID-19 epidemic. Over the years 2020 and 2021, this represents more than 200 scientific publications...
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2022.11.24
What does the term "toxin" mean? Louis Pasteur did not yet know when he identified bacteria as the cause of putrefaction in 1880. In his review article...
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2023.01.31
On June 28, 1871, Louis Pasteur filed an invention patent for a beer production process. He had observed that fermentation was caused by microorganisms, and...
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2023.04.03
We always marvel as we watch them grow, discover the world day by day and try to understand it. But how much do we know – or think we know – about what...
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2022.01.31
Infectious diarrhea represents a major public health problem at global level. Two forms of infectious diarrhea, shigellosis and bacillary dysentery, caused...