Chikungunya: a first authorized vaccine available in pharmacies
The IXCHIQ vaccine against chikungunya is available in French pharmacies, but it is not reimbursed by Health Insurance. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Tiger mosquito: an indigenous case of chikungunya identified in Île-de-France
Severe or fatal cases of chikungunya are rare and are usually associated with the existence of other pathologies. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Chikungunya: EU gives green light for first vaccine
The European Medicines Agency approved, this Friday, May 31, the use of the first vaccine against the chikungunya virus, developed ...
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Chikungunya: a first French vaccine is arriving soon in Europe
Valneva, a French drug manufacturer, announces the accelerated evaluation by the European Medicines Agency of its vaccine against chikungunya. It ...
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Chikungunya: a first vaccine authorized in the USA
A first vaccine against chikungunya, a disease transmitted by tiger mosquitoes, has just been approved by the United States Medicines ...
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Chikungunya: a candidate vaccine shows its effectiveness
A chikungunya vaccine candidate was generally well tolerated and produced an immune response in 99% of participants. THE ESSENTIAL Chikungunya ...
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Tiger mosquito: no domestic case of dengue fever for the moment
Santé Publique France published its first surveillance report on chikungunya, dengue and zika cases diagnosed in mainland France for the ...
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This new GMO mosquito does not see humans… and does not bite them anymore!
To fight against the many diseases transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes by biting humans, researchers have genetically modified the eyes ...
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Chikungunya: a French vaccine towards commercialization
The initial results of phase 3 clinical trials show that the vaccine developed by the Franco-Austrian laboratory Valneva induces a ...
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The tiger mosquito attacks in France and Florida has a parade
In France, the tiger mosquito is now active in 63 departments. In Florida, a biotechnology company launches the counterattack. THE ...
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Chikungunya, zika, dengue: the tiger mosquito is progressing in France
The mosquito extends its presence in France by 9 additional departments in one year. Among the 51 departments where it ...
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Are you one of those who attract mosquitoes?
Insects would be sensitive to an odor given off by sweat: that of lactic acid. But in some people, other ...
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Tiger mosquito red alert: 57 French departments concerned
According to the Vigilance-moustiques site, the risk of being bitten by the tiger mosquito is now maximum in 57 departments ...
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Insulin could play a vital role in controlling mosquito-borne viruses
This discovery could potentially limit the spread of dengue fever, Zika virus and West Nile virus. Viruses carried by mosquitoes ...
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Dengue fever, malaria, Zika… to reduce diseases, the UN wants to sterilize mosquitoes
To reduce the number of deaths due to infections spread by mosquito bites, the UN wants to try to reduce ...
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Chikungunya in the West Indies: treatment 100% covered by Health Insurance
© iStockWith more than 90,000 cases of chikungunya recorded since December 2013 in the West Indies and Guyana and six ...
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Chikungunya: the virus stays in the body long after infection
Researchers have discovered why people infected with the chikungunya virus still experience joint pain despite being cured. Between 30 and ...
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Chikungunya: an “indigenous” case confirmed in the Var
© ThinkstockChikungunya is a viral disease transmitted to humans by the tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). Endemic in South Asia and ...
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Chikungunya: Guadeloupe on high alert
© istockAll-out battle in Guadeloupe. "L'chikungunya epidemichas entered a phase of exponential growth, while the rainy season has not yet ...
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Another step towards the treatment of chikungunya
© Getty Images/iStockphotoChikungunya is an infectious disease caused by a virus transmitted to humans by the tiger mosquito. This virus ...
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First cases of chikungunya in the West Indies
© iStockPhotoChikungunya is a virus transmitted by a mosquito called Aedes albopictus by scientists, but more commonly known as the ...
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Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur: 18 confirmed cases of dengue and one probable case of Chinkungunya
The tiger mosquito has been implanted in the PACA region since 2004, but these 19 new cases were "imported", specifies ...
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Tiger mosquito: how to recognize it and protect yourself from it?
The tiger mosquito continues its colonization of France. How to recognize it and protect yourself from the diseases it carries?This ...
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Tiger mosquito: 50 French departments on red alert
For several years, the tiger mosquito has been moving towards the northern regions. He can be a carrier of certain ...
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Measles-derived vaccine could cure chikungunya virus
The first treatment for the chikungunya virus could soon hit the market. French, American and Austrian researchers have developed a ...
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Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya: Google wants to eradicate disease-carrying mosquitoes
Google has launched a program to rid us of disease-carrying mosquitoes, without impacting the environment or the health of humans ...
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Chikungunya, dengue and Zika under surveillance in France
© iStockPhotosIn the last Weekly epidemiological bulletin (BEH), Public Health France provides an update on surveillance of chikungunya, of the ...
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Chikungunya: the search for a vaccine is accelerating
© iStockWhile the chikungunya epidemic at his best in Saint-Barthélemy, in Guyana, Guadeloupe and Martinique, a first vaccine could soon ...
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Montpellier: facial paralysis in a man infected with the Usutu virus. What is that ?
A first case of human infection with the Usutu virus has been diagnosed in Montpellier. Transmitted by the bite of ...
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Chikungunya: what is it?
What's this ?"The chikungunya is an arbovirosis, that is to say a virus transmitted by an arthropod, which in this ...
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