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Report
2018.01.29
The French National Reference Center (CNR) for Salmonella, based at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, is in charge of microbiological surveillance of cases of...
Report
2018.01.22
Nearly a million people are currently suffering from cholera in Yemen, a worrying reminder that cholera remains a topical issue and a serious and fatal illness...
News
2018.01.03
In December 2014, cases of HIV infection were detected in Roka, a village in Battambang province, northwestern Cambodia. Of more than 2,000 villagers tested...
Report
2017.12.04
Every year, influenza – or flu – is responsible for three to five million severe cases and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide. In other words, the "seasonal"...
Document de presse
2017.11.30
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have retrospectively identified early cases of Salmonella resistance to ampicillin, a broad-spectrum antibiotic that is...
News
2017.11.22
An outbreak of pneumonic plague has been ongoing in Madagascar for several weeks. As indicated on the World Health Organization (WHO) website, "based on the...
Document de presse
2017.11.10
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, in collaboration with several other international institutions, recently published...
Document de presse
2017.11.03
Rift Valley fever virus, transmitted by mosquitoes, is responsible for outbreaks in livestock in Africa and can also be fatal in humans. Scientists from the...
News
2017.10.09
Swiss-born Alexandre Yersin joined the Institut Pasteur in 1885 aged just 22 and worked under Émile Roux. He discovered the plague bacillus in Hong Kong. A...
Report
2017.10.24
For the last few weeks, Madagascar has been facing a particularly severe outbreak of pneumonic plague, which is mainly affecting the major urban centers of...