Africa
Portrait
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...
News
2019.12.11
The Praesens Foundation, the Institut Pasteur, the Institut Pasteur de Dakar, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ:...
Report
2019.11.25
Disease outbreaks are unpredictable and often deadly. Wherever they occur on the planet, we are all potentially at risk: in our era of globalized air travel, a...
Portrait
2019.11.18
Lluis Quintana-Murci is a scientist specializing in human genetics, with a particular focus on population genetics. His fascinating research tells an amazing...
News
2019.10.25
On October 8, 2019, the Université libre de Bruxelles inaugurated an exhibition entitled "100th anniversary of a Nobel Prize – Jules Bordet". Developed in...
News
2019.09.27
A study by teams from the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge and the Institut Pasteur in Paris confirms the efficacy of the new post-exposure rabies vaccination...
News
2019.10.02
There is currently no vaccine for the Lassa arenavirus, which causes Lassa fever. This hemorrhagic fever, endemic in West Africa, infects up to 300,000 people...
Portrait
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,...
News
2019.04.26
Zika virus infection is still a global public health problem. The causative agent is the Zika virus, which is spread by mosquitoes of the Aedes genus. Numerous...
News
2019.04.09
Frequent and major outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis have swept through countries in the "African meningitis belt", a region south of the Sahara that...