Hervé Bourhy

Many of the recent emerging or re-emerging viruses possess RNA genomes. The causes of viral re-emergence and emergence are diverse and involve anthropogenic, social and environmental changes. However, the capacity of the viral genome […]

The research activities of our group focus on the understanding of the complex relationship between immunity and neural functions during rabies virus (RABV) infection, which should ultimately help in the comprehension of viral encephalitis […]

Our ambition is to generate a paradigm shift in the way rabies is monitored, studied and controlled, evolving from a situation where assessments about rabies burden, epidemiology and control are based on no-, limited […]

EVA-GLOBAL objective is to generate the largest accessible collection of human, animal and plant viruses in the world and move beyond the current state-of-the-art to provide an increasingly valuable resource and service to the […]

Dog mediated rabies still kills more than 60’000 people every year. This indicates a significant failure of current health systems in developing countries, with very poor access of exposed patients to quality rabies postexposure […]

Detailed objectives of the research program 1) How lyssavirus infection moves in both space and in time and the role played by ecological factors in the dispersal of lyssaviruses in bats and dogs. The […]

Dog constitutes one of the major reservoirs of the rabies virus (RABV), and the main vector of rabies in humans (nearly 60,000 deaths per year worldwide), in particular in the endemic areas in Asia […]

Various workshops on the diagnosis of rabies are regularly organized at international level, in the form of theoretical courses and practical work sessions. These workshops are organized in close collaboration with local partners and […]

The ChinEBatRhab project aims to unravel the diversity and the circulation of rhabdoviruses in European and Chinese bats. It focused on an extensive surveillance in Chinese and European bats to investigate the prevalence and […]

Rabies is an untreatable disease of humans due to lyssaviruses and Rabies virus (RABV) in particular. RABV is a highly neurotropic virus which prevent inflammation during the early phase of infection. In the brain, […]

Non-segmented negative strand RNA viruses are characterized by an intrinsic genome instability, the result of an error-prone RNA dependant RNA polymerase. To date, most viral populations have been characterized by their consensus genome sequences. […]

Our main objective is to increase the knowledge regarding the human virome during homeostasis and diseases. We mainly focus on: immunocompromised patients, where new pathogens and new associations between known pathogens and diseases at found at higher frequency than […]