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News | 2023.01.12
Improving our understanding of insect vectors to curb disease outbreaks
A few weeks after the book Le moustique, ennemi public n°1? , published by Quae, Anna-Bella Failloux, researcher at the Institut Pasteur and co-author of the book, looks back on the Pasteurian expertise on vector-borne diseases.
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Report | 2017.03.31
“The Geopolitics of the Mosquito” - Go further with our experts!
After investigating cotton, water and paper, the Institut Pasteur’s ambassador, Erik Orsenna, has turned his attention to mosquitoes in his new book, Géopolitique du moustique (The Geopolitics of the Mosquito). In this report we look more closely at the efforts of the Institut Pasteur scientists to understand mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit, which are known as vector-borne diseases. We...
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Article | 2017.01.05
MOOC Medical entomology - Insect vectors and transmission of pathogens
The MOOC Medical entomology focuses on the insects and arthropods that impact human health as well as the associated diseases, such as malaria, dengue, Zika, Lyme borreliosis, Chagas disease…
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News | 2019.03.06
Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Solidarity and Health visited the vectopole of the Institut Pasteur de la Guyane
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 1 March 2019. During this visit, Agnès Buzyn met with the Institute's researchers to talk about their research, and how they monitor infectious diseases through the national reference centres funded by the Ministry of Health."The Minister...
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Document de presse | 2016.03.16
Zika and microcephaly: first trimester of pregnancy most critical
A new analysis of data from the 2013-2014 Zika epidemic in French Polynesia by scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Paris, and their French Polynesian colleagues has confirmed the incidence of grouped cases of microcephaly and quantified the risk of microcephaly associated with the virus. Using innovative mathematical modeling techniques, their research shows that the risk of microcephaly is...
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Document de presse | 2016.03.04
Low competence of Aedes mosquitoes for Zika virus transmission
The Institut Pasteur's Arboviruses and Insect Vectors Unit, led by Anna-Bella Failloux, working in cooperation with the Institut Pasteur International Network (the Institut Pasteur in Guadeloupe, the Institut Pasteur in French Guiana, the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz and the Institut Pasteur in New Caledonia) and the Centre for Mosquito Control in Martinique, has carried out a study on the...
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News | 2022.11.22
Mystery of the Cape Verde Zika outbreak solved
Although Zika virus has been responsible for several outbreaks across the planet over the past decade, African countries have remained relatively exempt. But Cape Verde is a notable exception, having experienced a large outbreak in 2015-2016. How can this be explained? Scientists shed light on this seeming paradox.
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Article | 2017.01.04
4-year Research Group within the Pasteur Network
To encourage the development of ambitious research programmes, and to strengthen scientific leadership skills of promising researchers across the network, the Pasteur Network supports the creation of 4-year Research Groups in these institutes with a group-leader career development opportunity of up to €400,000.
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News | 2021.06.01
Tiger mosquito in France: 64 départements on red alert
French health authorities updated their map showing the spread of the tiger mosquito in France. On 1st of January 2021, 64 of the country's départements on "red alert", six more than on 1st of January 2020. Present in France since 2004, the Aedes albopictus mosquito is originally from Asia and is the vector for diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika.In 2021, the tiger mosquito (...
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Document de presse | 2016.01.08
The Institut Pasteur in French Guiana publishes the first complete genome sequence of the Zika virus circulating in the Americas
Having confirmed the first cases of infection in Suriname then in French Guiana, the Institut Pasteur in French Guiana has sequenced the complete genome of the Zika virus, which is responsible for an unprecedented epidemic currently sweeping through the tropical regions of the Americas. Published in The Lancet medical journal today, the analysis of this sequence shows almost complete homology...