Institut Pasteur du Cambodge director welcomed by HE Prof. Mam Bunheng, Minister of Health Prof. André Spiegel, newly appointed Director of the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge and Dr. Ly Sowath, Deputy Director, meet His Excellency Prof. Mam Bunheng, Minister of Health. The courtesy call was the occasion to reaffirm the strong relation and cooperation between … Read more
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.