INTERVIEW
Pasteurdon 2019 is until Sunday. Invited to 5:40 of Julien Pearce, the director of communication and patronage of the Pasteur Institute, Jean-François Chambon, explained in particular the importance of research in antibiotic resistance, one of the priority health issues of the Pasteur Institute, with the fight against emerging infectious diseases and works in neuroscience. "It is crucial for us to propose new approaches, since we work with antibiotics that are relatively old, so from year to year we see more and more resistance," says Jean-Francois Chambon. "The consequence is that infectious diseases that are treated relatively well will become more and more difficult to treat or are already difficult to treat."
Donations have made significant progress on Ebola and Zika
These diseases include infections contracted during surgical procedures, such as staphylococci. According to Jean-François Chambon, greater caution should be used during medical operations.
The donations collected during the Pasteurdon operation represent a third of the operating budget, and it has in recent years enabled us to make progress on major epidemics such as Ebola or Zika. "We have been able to prove the link between Zika and microcephaly ( a disease that deforms the skull of newborns, ed .) We are also at the origin of the alert on salmonella infection in milk powder" , develops Jean-François Chambon.
To make a donation to the Institut Pasteur, it's on pasteurdon.fr or by SMS or phone at 3620. Europe 1 is a partner of the operation.