The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge is pleased to share the publication of the paper below published in Science, the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This research on dengue is the result of a collaboration between the Immunology, Epidemiology and Public Health and Virology teams at Institut Pasteur du Cambodge
The IPC held its annual Liaison Council under the Presidency of His Excellency the Minister of Health, Prof MAM Bunheng, on May 27th 2021.
The Direction of the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge would sincerely like to express our warmest thanks to all staff for their achievements since the beginning of the pandemic for the benefit of the Cambodian population.
Between January 28th and February 11th 2021, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) held its fourth Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Given the current global COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was conducted virtually.
It is the world’s most pressing scientific puzzle. Pieces scattered around the world are being collected in search of a suspect in the largest health crisis to ever hit the globe in the past century.
A freezer cabinet on the ground floor of a Phnom Penh laboratory and an irrigation pipe in a wildlife sanctuary in Thailand are not the most obvious places to look for the origins of the virus that sparked the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the study, the Aedes albopictus mosquito species, previously thought to only live outside Phnom Penh, was recorded living at 40 different locations in the capital. Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are the species most responsible for spreading dengue fever.
Southeast Asia, including Cambodia, is a hotspot of emerging and endemic infectious diseases, and the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge has been integral in searching for and combating these pathogens since its inception.
Exactly one year ago today, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) identified the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Cambodia. A long history of detecting and preventing emerging and endemic infectious diseases along with a rapid response to the global concern over “pneumonia of unknown origin” allowed IPC to be ready to test for SARS-CoV-2 in mid-January.
The FSPI project (Solidarity Funds for Innovative Projects) is entitled “Monitoring and Prevention of potential emerging viruses in Cambodia and Southeast Asia”. French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs funded in 2019-2021 this project, supported by the French Embassy in Cambodia.