News
2023.02.20
Following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023, the Institut Pasteur has decided to participate in a "mobile laboratory...
News
2020.10.21
Between September 2018 and March 2019, a cholera epidemic took place in Zimbabwe, causing 10 000 cases and 69 deaths. The Enteric Bacterial Pathogens Unit at...
News
2020.10.21
Thanks to the collection of cholera vibrio strains from the National Reference Centre for Vibrio and Cholera (hosted by the Enteric Bacterial Pathogens Unit at...
News
2020.10.11
For the 2020 Pasteurdon (the Institut Pasteur’s public fundraising campaign), listen to a podcast in French. Mathieu Vidard, presenter of "La Terre au carré"...
Report
2019.11.25
Disease outbreaks are unpredictable and often deadly. Wherever they occur on the planet, we are all potentially at risk: in our era of globalized air travel, a...
Document de presse
2019.01.03
The seventh cholera pandemic has been affecting world regions since 1961. In successive waves, Vibrio cholerae bacteria have been accompanying humans in their...
Report
2018.07.27
One hundred years after the deadliest influenza pandemic in history – the Spanish Flu of 1918 –, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases continue to...
News
2018.04.16
In February 2017, Dr Halima Maïnassara is the first woman from Niger to be appointed Director General of the Center for Medical and Health Research (CERMES) in...
Report
2018.01.22
Nearly a million people are currently suffering from cholera in Yemen, a worrying reminder that cholera remains a topical issue and a serious and fatal illness...
News
2017.11.14
On June 4, 1887, the Institut Pasteur was created following the success of the rabies vaccine developed by Louis Pasteur – and thanks to the generous support...