Conference "Emerging infectious diseases: Why? How?" UM Thursdays

Thursday, May 11, 2017 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Faculty of Medicine (historic building), anatomy amphitheater.
Lecture by Professor Eric Delaporte, Director of the TransVIHMI unit (IRD-University of Montpellier), Head of the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at Montpellier University Hospital.

Recent years have been marked by waves of high-profile emerging diseases, of which Ebola and Zika are the latest examples. But without a doubt, the most dramatic emerging disease in recent years is AIDS, whose HIV virus has infected 60 million people worldwide in 30 years.
The most extraordinary thing about AIDS is that it was a single episode of a virus passing from chimpanzees to humans that caused this health catastrophe.
How can such an infection emerge in humans, and how can it spread epidemically? These questions can only be answered through multidisciplinary research in which IRD and Université de Montpellier researchers have played an active part.
In the case of AIDS, it took almost 20 years to unravel the mystery of the origin of this epidemic.
Where? When? How? Why? Based on the tracking down of this origin, lessons for the future will be discussed.
Watch the video "AIDS, on the African trail

UM Thursdays

The University of Montpellier, with its nine Faculties, two Schools and 6 Institutes, is bursting at the seams with teachers and researchers in a wide variety of fields. We've decided to put the spotlight on them by offering a new series of lectures: "Les Jeudis de l'UM" (UM Thursdays).
Variety of themes/Variety of venues: these events are designed as a journey through the UM's components, so that everyone can discover and exchange ideas on university themes that are accessible to all.