Mpox: Pasteur Institute ready for “experiment and vaccination”

Despite the resurgence of the mpox epidemic worldwide, the Pasteur Institute said it was prepared to “testing and vaccination of patients at the request of authorities“French, not announced at this stage”without pollution“on the land.

The Pasteur Institute says it is ready

“Since this weekend, following the activation of the Directorate General of Health (DGS), the emergency biological intervention unit of the Institut Pasteur (CIBU) has been analyzing suspicious samples at the request of the health authorities.“, the Institute announced in press release.

The medical center Institut Pasteur, which specializes in travel medicine, which had treated patients with mpox during the previous epidemic in 2022, “has promoted its internal protocol that allows it to test patients with symptoms suggestive of mpox (…) under the best safety conditions“He stands in the way.”available to health authorities to vaccinate within its walls everyone from populations targeted by the health recommendations currently being re-evaluated“, he assured.

“This is a serious health condition“, said Yasmine Belkaid, director general of the Pasteur Institute, who was mentioned in the press release.”Today we are ready to test and vaccinate patients at the request of the authorities.”

France’s health system in “state of greatest alert”

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Friday announced the situation of the French health system in a “state of maximum attention” after an initial meeting with the ministers in charge of the subject. A new meeting was held in Matignon on Monday afternoon. “To date, no contamination with clade 1 has yet been recorded in France“, the government specified in a “health point” published Monday night on its website and social networks. The government details the signs and methods of contamination and recalls that clade 2, “has been circulating cautiously in France since the 2022 outbreak, with a monthly number of reported cases varying between 12 and 26 between January and June 2024“.

It also specifies the number of “Mpox information service” (08 01 90 80 69), free telephone information service”open daily from 8am to 11pm.“. In an interview with Sunday La TribuneOutgoing Health Minister Frédéric Valletoux said he expected “issues from time to time“of the new version of mpox”appear, and probably soon“In France.

On Thursday, Sweden announced that it had registered a case of subtype clade 1b, the same strain that has appeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo since September 2023, more deadly and milder than clade 2 , endemic in West Africa. A case was also announced in Asia, in Pakistan.