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2020.04.14
Professor Philippe Sansonetti explains that a lockdown was needed because social distancing measures were not enough on their own. He goes on to outline the...
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2020.02.27
All travelers can come into contact with health risks that are completely different from those they generally encounter on a daily basis. So it is vital to...
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2020.01.30
Jean-Philippe Chippaux is a hands-on guy. Throughout his career, he has contributed to the prevention and treatment of several neglected tropical diseases in a...
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2019.11.25
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur (Paris) have described the vector competence of the mosquito Aedes albopictus from south of France to different genotypes...
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2019.11.04
For the first time in mainland France, people have contracted the Zika virus. Unlike "imported" cases of the disease, reported by people returning from a trip...
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2018.10.04
Close to 70 different nationalities work alongside each other on the Institut Pasteur's Paris campus, and Anna-Bella has come all the way from Tahiti. She was...
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2018.09.04
You have no doubt already heard about emerging viruses. The international media regularly informs us about viruses raging across the world, for instance Zika,...
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2019.07.12
The first mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia, bacteria that prevent them from transmitting arboviruses (including dengue, Zika and chikungunya), were released on...
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2019.07.01
The second international medical entomology course took place in Vientiane, at the Institut Pasteur du Laos, for two weeks from June 10 to 22, 2019. The course...
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2019.06.04
The Institut Pasteur in Paris has opened a vast new insectarium for rearing mosquitoes with the potential to transmit arboviruses – viruses transmitted between...