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“One Health”: Dogs Are Also Affected by Bisphenol A
Bisphenol A, used in the manufacture of plastics and resins, is also found in dog food cans. Significant concentrations of this chemical have been found in the serum of these an...
Combating Zoonoses: A Three-Year Project Successfully Completed in Cambodia
Since late 2012, teams from Agronomes et vétérinaires sans frontières (AVSF) and Merial have been collaborating on an animal health and public health program aimed at developing...
Rabies: An Oral Vaccine Candidate Successfully Tested in an Endangered Wild Canid
Rabies continues to ravage the world, claiming between 60,000 and 70,000 lives each year, the majority of whom are children. Yet more than 95 percent of human rabies cases are c...
Rabies: a confirmed case in a bat in the Vendée region
A bat carrying the rabies virus was found in a weakened state on June 26, 2016, in a public park in Fontenay-le-Comte, in the Vendée region. The very next day after it was found...
Lyme disease: a zoonosis with many unknowns
Borreliosis is one of the underdiagnosed tick-borne diseases, especially in France. To raise awareness about this condition, which officially affects 27,000 people each year in...
Zoonoses: Predicting Future Outbreaks Through Global Modeling in Mammals
A team of researchers from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and the University of Georgia (United States) used real-time medical databases to map the geographic ranges, d...
Therapy Dogs: Proven Benefits for Children with Cancer
Many hospitals that have opened their oncology departments to dogs report that patients benefit from this animal-assisted therapy. However, until now, few scientifically based s...
Rabies: Global Elimination of the Disease Is Possible, Provided the Resources Are Up to the Challenge
On this 9th World Rabies Day, four organizations involved in this global fight are calling on the international community to put an end to this deadly disease. Rabies is one of...
Usutu Virus: First Detection in France in Blackbirds Found Dead
Mosquito-borne viruses are becoming a growing threat in Western Europe, and France is no exception. Closely related to the West Nile virus currently circulating in the Camargue,...
Bat rabies: first case detected in the Oise department
On June 10, 2015, the Pasteur Institute confirmed a case of rabies in a sick bat found in the town of Gouvieux, in the southern part of the Oise department. The two people who d...
Using the rabbit myxomatosis virus to ensure the safety of human bone marrow transplants
Although the myxoma virus is often fatal to rabbits, it has little effect on humans when they are exposed to it. However, using a xenograft model, researchers have discovered th...
A case of canine rabies was confirmed today in the Loire department
On Thursday, May 21, 2015, the Pasteur Institute confirmed a case of rabies in a bull terrier pedigree dog kept at Square Louis Huguet in the town of Chambon-Feugerolles (Loire)...