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Program relocated to Marseille, on the occasion of "Actualités du Pharo", the French-speaking meetings of tropical medicine and public health, at the Timone hospital.

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Three infectious disease specialists deal with three aspects of this specialty, which treats both the major infections that are rife in southern countries and emerging pathologies.

Where is the response and research on infections linked to faecal peril, haemorrhagic fevers and malaria?

Has the Covid-19 crisis had an impact on the management of these pathologies? 

  • Prof. Christophe RAPP,

    Infectiologist at the

    American Hospital of Paris

    (Neuilly), President of the

    French society of travel medicine  

  • Prof. Olivier Bouchaud,

    Head of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department,

    CHU Avicenne

    in Bobigny in the Paris region  

  • Prof. Jean-François Faucher

    , head of the infectious and tropical diseases department at the

    CHU de Limoges.

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