neuropathology
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2023.07.24
In 1885, Louis Pasteur successfully performed the first rabies vaccination on Joseph Meister, a 9-year-old shepherd from Alsace. A century and a half later,...
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2022.10.05
The Institut Pasteur is continuing to celebrate the bicentenary of Louis Pasteur's birth by organizing a major conference in December and also by partnering...
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2022.02.23
In May 2020, while the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak was coming to an end in France, initial reports emerged of patients with some persistent symptoms...
Document de presse
2022.07.13
Bats are reservoir species for numerous viruses including coronaviruses. Given that they do not appear to be affected by diseases transmitted by these viruses...
Document de presse
2022.06.29
Rabies virus kills over 50,000 people each year. Although current rabies vaccines are effective, they do not offer lifelong protection and booster doses are...
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2021.09.30
On rare occasions in mainland France, a bite or scratch by a bat can transmit a virus capable of causing rabies, as was the case for a patient in 2019. Experts...
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2021.05.20
Rabies is still responsible for approximately 60,000 deaths in humans each year. The bat-borne virus EBL1a, related to rabies, rarely affects humans, but a...
Document de presse
2021.01.19
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur-TheraVectys Joint Laboratory recently published in Cell Host & Microbe1 the results of tests, in two preclinical...
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2020.06.16
The Institut Pasteur's Pathogen Discovery Laboratory and the neuropathology laboratory at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital set out to identify pathogens in fatal...
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2020.02.06
Rabies is still responsible for approximately 60,000 human deaths per year mostly in Asia and Africa and affects especially underserved people. Yet, since the...