How have African researchers taken up the challenge of Ebola?

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"Mamita Lamin" escribe "Aún sobrevivimos al ebola".

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By: Caroline Lachowsky

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Meeting with Alpha Kabinet Keita, internationally recognized for his research and discoveries in Guinea on emerging viruses

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How have African researchers taken up the challenge of Ebola and how their work and their findings on the continent have proved essential to better understand and fight against emerging diseases? It was within CERFIG (Guinea's infectious disease research and training center) that he helped found that our guest microbiologist 

  is now carrying out research in conjunction with the TransVIHMI unit of IRD at the University of Montpellier. How did this brilliant researcher decide to come back to his country, Guinea, and mobilize all the forces to fight against this deadly virus? How did his discoveries change the approach and especially the monitoring of this epidemic? How did its research and training laboratory in Guinea become one of the referents of the program to monitor the evolution of sars cov2 variants in Africa? And why does this fervent promoter and actor of

have anything to inspire us? 

With

doctor and microbiologist, researcher at the University of Montpellier.

Deputy Director of the Guinea Infectious Disease Research and Training Center (CERFIG), he works on the reservoirs of viruses responsible for zoonoses (Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, Crimea Congo, Yellow fever, Dengue, Chickungunya and Coronaviruses)

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