Researchers from the Centre for Infection and Immunity in Lille (CNRS/Inserm/Institut Pasteur de Lille/University of Lille/CHU Lille) and their colleagues from INRAE have revealed for the first time in mice that disturbances in the intestinal microbiota caused by the influenza virus favour secondary bacterial superinfections. Published in the
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They are as old as life itself, but scientists cannot say for sure if they are alive. Viruses are embedded in our DNA, shaping the human saga through mutation and resistance. We touch hundreds of millions of them every day. Like the new epidemic of
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Should we be afraid? The coronavirus is the subject of all our conversations, not news bulletins without counting the sick, the dead, the measures taken by this or that government. To stop, if not eradicate, what seems to have become a strange paranoia with unpredictable consequences. Locking up cities, fencing off more
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Le coronavirus nous met face à un grave problème. Cependant, il faut se souvenir que l’une des premières victimes du coronavirus aura été l’économie. S’il est important de rendre compte de l’évolution de la situation, il faut également mettre l’accent sur les informations positives. Et elles existent aussi : voici dix
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The coronavirus of Chinese origin is spreading, triggering epidemics in many countries at the same time, and now threatens to spread around the world like a full-blown pandemic. All the governments of the states in which patients have been identified are announcing that the spread is inevitable and that it is
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Cela aurait pu être un pangolin. Ou une chauve-souris. Ou, comme le suggère une théorie maintenant démystifiée qui a fait le tour du web, un serpent. La course pour identifier la source animale de COVID-19, le coronavirus qui piège actuellement plus de 150 millions de personnes dans des quarantaines et
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Beijing has announced a "complete" ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals, a practice suspected to be at the root of the coronavirus outbreak that began in December in central China and now threatens the world with a pandemic. This announcement is good news for the advocates of
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The coronavirus COVID-19 continued to spread on Wednesday across the world which, according to a WHO expert, "is simply not ready to deal with it". The December epidemic in central China has already reached a peak in that country, where it infected some
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As the coronavirus-COVID-19 accelerates its spread around the world, as WHO warns of the risk of a pandemic, as stock exchanges around the world panic, governments are taking action. The risk of a major public health crisis calls for measures of restraint, containment, surveillance and monitoring that will be necessary to prevent the spread of the virus.
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Every day the number of people infected and deaths due to coronavirus passes a milestone. China is by far the most affected region in the world, despite the exceptional measures that the country has taken. Draconian measures to lock up tens of millions of people in
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A research team at the University of North Carolina in the United States, led by one of the world's leading virus specialists, Professor Ralph Baric, is racing against time to artificially recreate the Chinese coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 is its scientific name). From DNA
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L’épidémie de coronavirus Covid-19 en cours, qui a débuté à Wuhan à la fin de l’année dernière, illustre bien la menace que représentent les maladies infectieuses émergentes, non seulement pour la santé humaine et animale, mais aussi pour la stabilité sociale, le commerce et l’économie mondiale. Ces perturbations se produisent dans
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The images are impressive: ghost towns deserted by their millions of inhabitants, masked men, convoys of people taken to containment centres, closed borders. The Chinese coronavirus has triggered a fever of anxiety, if not panic. A fever fought with the most effective means
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Doctors, WHO scientists and all public health organizations kept telling us this. We are on the brink of a devastating global pandemic. The question that no one can answer is that of the source of this expected and almost certain disease.
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