News
2019.11.25
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur (Paris) have described the vector competence of the mosquito Aedes albopictus from south of France to different genotypes...
News
2019.11.07
We now know that neurodegenerative diseases are caused by the aggregation of "misfolded" proteins in the brain. These proteins, which are toxic for neurons,...
News
2019.11.04
For the first time in mainland France, people have contracted the Zika virus. Unlike "imported" cases of the disease, reported by people returning from a trip...
Document de presse
2019.10.03
Bacillary dysentery caused by the intestinal bacteria Shigella is a major health problem in tropical regions and developing countries. Complications from this...
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
2019.02.12
Ebola has battered the Democratic Republic of the Congo for many months, from the outbreak that ended in July 2018 to the epidemic currently raging. These are...
News
2019.07.12
Research efforts in recent years have highlighted that sex - being a woman or a man - can have a strong influence on how humans and animals respond to many...
Document de presse
2019.05.09
Nipah virus, a bat-borne paramyxovirus found throughout South and South East Asia, has been identified by WHO as an emerging infectious disease that may cause...
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...
Document de presse
2019.02.27
The circulation of the dengue virus for the past sixty years in South-East Asia is relatively well known. For Zika, the situation is much less clear. In an...