Simon Cauchemez

There have been a number of recent efforts to build global maps of infection risk for different pathogens. These maps typically use the results of regressions in well-characterized settings to quantify the association between […]

With over 125 years’ experience with infectious diseases, the Institut Pasteur and the Institut Pasteur International Network (IPIN), which is composed of 33 research institutes in 26 countries and five continents, are ideally positioned […]

  A large number of groups at the Institut Pasteur perform state-of-the-art research documenting the dynamics of infection in vivo for a variety of pathogens. These dynamics are often complex and the data may […]

Zoonotic viruses are viruses that have an animal reservoir but may also infect humans. The 2009 A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza pandemic, the SARS epidemic in 2003, the recent emergence of a novel coronavirus in the Middle […]

The fight against malaria has been declared a Millennium Development Goal by the World Health Organization, and as such receives significant worldwide funding. Despite this fact, the public health agencies that manage this program […]

An outbreak of chikungunya fever started in the Americas at the end of 2013. Figure 1 below shows territories that reported at least one autochthonous case by 15 June 2014. The first territory reporting […]

West Africa has been affected by an epidemic of Ebola of unprecedented magnitude. Since summer 2014, we have been working very closely with Amadou Sall and his team from Institut Pasteur Dakar and a […]