1. News | 2017.06.22

   A strategy for attenuating a virus by modifying its evolutionary potential

   RNA viruses, like influenza viruses, have broad genetic variability, which gives them a high adaptive potential. As part of the fight against RNA viruses, scientists at the Institut Pasteur – evolutionary virologists – decided to alter their future. Along with colleagues from Lund University (Sweden), they succeeded in altering the genomes of an enterovirus and an influenza virus, thereby...

2. Document de presse | 2017.06.22

   The African Society of Venimology, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD-France) and Institut Pasteur welcome WHO’s Decision to add Snakebites to Category A of the List of Neglected Tropical Diseases

   COTONOU, MARSEILLE, PARIS – The decision by the World Health Organization to recognize snakebite envenomation in Category A of its list of Neglected Tropical Diseases provides a welcome opportunity to strengthen snakebite care strategies, particularly in Africa. More than one million snakebites occur each year in sub-Saharan Africa. Envenomations are estimated to cause 25,000-30,000 deaths...

3. News | 2017.07.03

   Thank you, Simone Veil!

   The Institut Pasteur owes much of what (and where) it is today to Simone Veil.On June 12, 1975, Simone Veil, then French Minister of Health and Family, held a meeting with Jacques Monod, President of the Institut Pasteur, and Jean Royer, Chairman of the Board of Directors, to inform them that the government would be increasing its grant to the Institut Pasteur from 20 to 50.5 million francs. This...

4. Article | 2017.07.07

   Insects and vector-borne diseases in Amazonia and the Caribbean: from field to lab

    SummaryThe course objective is to get knowledge and practice on vectors of parasites and viruses circulating in the Amazonian and Caribbean regions. A large panel of lecturers will cover the biology, behaviour and identification of the vector of malaria, chagas disease, leishmaniases and arboviroses as well as pathogen detection and vector control aspects. Students will be asked to work on...

5. Document de presse | 2017.07.10

   AIDS research at the Institut Pasteur

   AIDS research at the Institut Pasteur Today, 34 years after Institut Pasteur scientists discovered HIV-1 – a breakthrough that was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2008 – AIDS remains a major public health problem, affecting the poorest countries and people in particular: 37 million people live with HIV/AIDS in the world, half of whom do not have access to treatment, and there are...

6. Document de presse | 2017.07.17

   Malaria : a genetic marker helps identify super-spreading mosquitoes

   Malaria super-spreading mosquitoes can now be identified more easily. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, CNRS and IRD, in collaboration with scientific teams from four African countries and the United States, have identified a genetic marker that helps detect malaria-susceptible mosquitoes which are more likely to be infected with Plasmodium parasites in the wild, thereby having greater...

7. Document de presse | 2017.07.13

   Phage therapy: synergy between bacteriophages and the immune system is essential

   Two teams from the Institut Pasteur, in partnership with researchers from Inserm and the Georgia Institute of Technology in the U.S., have demonstrated that in order to ensure the efficacy of phage therapy applied in vivo during bacterial infection, bacteriophages rely on the host's immune response. This synergy is largely based on the crucial action of neutrophil immune cells. The discovery...

8. News | 2017.07.06

   Why vaccines are essential

   Health professionals are rallying around in support of the French government's plan to make 11 vaccines compulsory for children. Prof. Philippe Sansonetti, a microbiologist and infectious disease specialist at the Institut Pasteur, signed the petition launched by the French Society of Pediatricians, together with more than 1,600 colleagues* and infancy specialists. He reminds us that vaccines are...

9. News | 2017.07.19

   Pertussis : progress but lack of surveillance

   Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, and which can be serious, or even fatal, for infants. Using a mathematical model, scientists from Honk Kong University and WHO have just published new estimates of the global weight of the disease. These new estimates indicate that the number of pertussis cases among children under 5 years of...

10. Report | 2017.07.24

    AIDS: progress and fresh hope

    Having claimed the lives of close to 40 million people (source: OMS 2017) since HIV was discovered in 1983, AIDS is indeed a global health catastrophe. Significant progress has nevertheless been made over the last few years, particularly in developed countries, with longer life expectancy for patients on triple therapy. But this treatment does not eliminate the virus and must be taken for life....

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