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Document de presse | 2022.02.16
SARS-CoV-2-related viruses capable of infecting human cells discovered in bats in northern Laos
Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, several animal species have been studied to identify potential reservoirs and/or intermediate hosts of the virus. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur du Laos and the National University of Laos recently set out to shed light on the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and explore the potential presence of SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in the natural environment by...
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News | 2020.01.22
SARS-CoV-2 : le rôle de l’Institut Pasteur dans la surveillance du virus 2019 n-CoV apparu en Chine (in French)
Dans le cadre de sa mission de surveillance des virus respiratoires sur le territoire français, l’Institut Pasteur mobilise ses équipes, notamment via le centre national de référence (CNR) des virus des infections respiratoires. Son rôle est d’identifier et confirmer les suspicions d’infection respiratoires aiguës liées au nouveau coronavirus apparu à Wuhan, en Chine, en décembre 2019, et dont le...
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News | 2021.03.30
Mobilization of the Institut Pasteur International Network to manage the COVID-19 outbreak: case study of support provided to the Institut Pasteur de Bangui
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and increasingly rapidly thereafter, the Institut Pasteur International Network has drawn heavily on all its expertise and resources to tackle this emerging virus and its consequences, particularly through its support of institutes based in low-income countries. All Network member institutes have been identified by their health authorities as...
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News | 2024.03.19
Pasteur Museum: transferring the collections to protect them
As part of the work to restore and renovate the Institut Pasteur's historical building, the Pasteur Museum recently embarked on an unprecedented process to transfer its collections. This involves meticulously preparing the items so that they can be stored in dedicated spaces that are suitable for housing such valuable objects.
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News | 2018.10.17
Claude Flamand : predicting epidemics with satellite images
Settled in Cayenne for 11 years, Claude Flamand heads the Epidemiology Unit at the Institut Pasteur de la Guyane. Since 2014, this epidemiologist and biostatistician works with the French National Centre for Space Studies to predict dengue epidemics in time and space thanks to satellite imaging."Car, helicopter, canoe, we used every possible means to reach people everywhere in French Guiana",...
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News | 2019.10.25
Exhibition in honor of Jules Bordet at the Université libre de Bruxelles
On October 8, 2019, the Université libre de Bruxelles inaugurated an exhibition entitled "100th anniversary of a Nobel Prize – Jules Bordet". Developed in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur, this exhibition pays tribute to Institut Pasteur scientist Jules Bordet, who was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on immunity. The exhibition will run until December 21...
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News | 2023.03.22
The origins of SARS-CoV-2: the search goes on
Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from? How did this virus enter the human population? These questions still remain unanswered. In June 2022, a group of experts, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO), published a report on the origin of coronavirus but was unable to draw a definitive conclusion. Since then, research has...
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Document de presse | 2012.11.13
The Institut Pasteur inaugurates its new center for research on emerging diseases at a ceremony attended by French President François Hollande
On November 14, 2012, Professor Alice Dautry, President of the Institut Pasteur, and Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Chairman of the Institut Pasteur Board of Directors, officially opened the Institut Pasteur’s research center for the study of emerging diseases at a ceremony attended by French President François Hollande. Paris, november 14, 2013 In recent decades, we have witnessed...
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News | 2016.08.22
TONIRA : towards better medical care of acute respiratory infections among children in Niger
In Niger, respiratory infections and pneumonia are the second cause of hospital infant mortality (10 to 20% of deaths according to health authorities information). As in most African countries, few data on surveillance and etiology of these infections are available whereas they are essential to guide public health policies. In addition in Niger, antibiotic treatment for acute respiratory diseases...
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News | 2016.09.22
Culex mosquitoes do not transmit Zika virus
Since the first cases of infection were identified in Brazil, in May 2015, the Zika virus has spread to over 46 countries in America. Several hypothesis are discussed to explain the extent of the epidemic and the rapidity with which the virus has invaded the continent. The transmission could be facilitated by the absence of immunity of the American populations as the virus comes from Africa but...