Epidemiology
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2020.10.11
For the 2020 Pasteurdon (the Institut Pasteur’s public fundraising campaign), listen to a podcast in French. Mathieu Vidard, presenter of "La Terre au carré"...
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2020.10.13
Hepatitis B is a viral infection that can be fatal. Most chronic forms are caused by mother-to-child transmission. To avoid this transmission, the World Health...
Document de presse
2020.09.10
Epidemiological theory teaches us that a microbial agent introduced into a population stops circulating when the proportion of the population that is immune to...
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2020.09.03
Monkeypox is an emerging infectious disease for which outbreak frequency and expected outbreak size in human populations have steadily increased. The...
Document de presse
2020.04.24
Approximately four months after the initial description of cases of atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, COVID-19 had become a major pandemic...
News
2020.07.21
With the help of a genetic structure analysis carried out on 25 Ae. albopictus mosquito populations covering all continents, scientists demonstrate that the...
Document de presse
2020.07.06
Every winter, seasonal coronaviruses are responsible for repeated colds and bronchitis from early childhood onwards. The question of whether the four seasonal...
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2020.07.09
The African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is a parasite responsible for chronic Human African Trypanosomiasis, more commonly known as sleeping...
Document de presse
2020.06.23
COVID-19 in primary schools: no significant transmission among children or from students to teachers
In late April 2020, scientists at the Institut Pasteur, with the support of the Hauts-de-France Regional Health Agency and the Amiens Education Authority,...
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2020.06.18
The Institut Pasteur's bioinformatics research teams have been closely involved in the response to COVID-19, working to analyze the sequencing data produced...