mosquitoes
News
2019.05.14
On April 26, the French Ministry of Health updated its map showing distribution of the tiger mosquito in France. In total, 51 French départements are on "red...
News
2019.05.20
Dengue, also known as dengue fever, is a viral disease transmitted to humans by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes. The incidence of dengue is currently increasing...
News
2019.04.26
Zika virus infection is still a global public health problem. The causative agent is the Zika virus, which is spread by mosquitoes of the Aedes genus. Numerous...
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2019.04.04
During the Monaco Ocean Week*, on Thursday 28 March, His Serene Highness, the Sovereign Prince Albert II, in the presence of Professor Stewart Cole, Director...
News
2019.03.06
At the end of her visit to French Guiana, Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Solidarity and Health, visited the vectopole of the Institut Pasteur de la Guyane on Friday...
Document de presse
2019.02.27
The circulation of the dengue virus for the past sixty years in South-East Asia is relatively well known. For Zika, the situation is much less clear. In an...
News
2019.02.20
How do mosquitoes transmit viruses to humans? Sarah Merkling, researcher at the Institut Pasteur and laureate of an L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award,...
News
2019.01.28
In a context of overuse of insecticides, which leads to the selection of resistant mosquitoes, it is already known that this resistance to insecticides affects...
Report
2019.01.28
With outbreaks in Angola in 2015 and Brazil in 2016, and cases detected in French Guiana in 2017 and even recently in Asia, where the virus had never...
News
2018.10.17
Settled in Cayenne for 11 years, Claude Flamand heads the Epidemiology Unit at the Institut Pasteur de la Guyane. Since 2014, this epidemiologist and...