News
2017.03.30
Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are a threat to public health, as we saw with SARS in 2003, the influenza (H1N1pdm09) pandemic in 2009, MERS-CoV...
Report
2017.03.31
After investigating cotton, water and paper, the Institut Pasteur’s ambassador, Erik Orsenna, has turned his attention to mosquitoes in his new book,...
News
2017.03.28
“What is it about the 21st century that makes us so particularly vulnerable to epidemics?” This is the question asked by the documentary "Unseen Enemy",...
News
2017.03.29
As part of his trip round the world to gain a better understanding of mosquitoes and write his book Géopolitique du moustique (The Geopolitics of the Mosquito...
News
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...
News
2017.03.27
Population growth and economic activity are factors that largely influence ecosystem changes. These changes can in turn have consequences for human populations...
News
2017.03.14
The innate immune response provides an important natural defense system that protects the organism against various types of infectious threats. Innate lymphoid...
News
2017.03.02
Zika virus infection is usually asymptomatic or mild. However, it can sometimes lead to an autoimmune disease called Guillain-Barré syndrome. In rare patients...
News
2017.02.03
Given the immense complexity of brain organization, neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux has come up with a new research strategy that encourages a more...
News
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....