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2024.09.18
Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can be severe or even fatal for vulnerable individuals, such as unvaccinated infants. People...
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2024.06.10
© musée des Confluences – Bertrand Stofleth
The exhibition looks back at a shared history involving humans, animals and microorganisms, the history of...
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2024.05.06
Between April and December 2022 in France, four pregnant women and one immunocompromised individual were infected with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, which...
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2024.05.03
On April 26, 2024, the World Health Organization held a high-level meeting at the Institut Pasteur to highlight the importance of tackling meningitis, a...
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2022.07.08
What is your overall assessment of 2021?
Christian Vigouroux: The Board of Governors proved that the Institut Pasteur's historical structure served its...
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2022.07.09
The significant focus on COVID in labs did not prevent major breakthroughs in other key fields.
What...
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2022.10.05
"Carte blanche" for the Institut Pasteur and the French Academy of Sciences at the "Rendez-vous de l'histoire" festival in Blois...
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2022.11.24
What does the term "toxin" mean? Louis Pasteur did not yet know when he identified bacteria as the cause of putrefaction in 1880. In his review article...
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2022.12.12
When it comes to emerging infectious diseases, it is crucial for us to be able to sound the alert and prepare so that we can implement effective measures to...
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2023.03.30
Identifying the pathogens responsible for a disease outbreak can be a complicated task. From one generation to the next, each pathogen can mutate, and it can...