Mireille Dosso

"At the same time the CDC in Abidjan wanted to give its collections of samples to the Institut Pasteur in Cote d'Ivoire."

"The majority of biobanks are then located in the developed countries and the Institut Pasteur in Côte d'Ivoire."

"In March 2014, the Institut Pasteur thanks to the BSL4 laboratory of the National Reference Center for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, confirms the presence of the Zaire species of the Ebola virus (ZEBOV) in a patient sample from Guinea."

"This is the starting point of an unprecedented international mobilization to stem what will prove to be the most severe Ebola epidemic ever recorded in West Africa."

"In June 2016, when the WHO announced the official end of the epidemic, the figures were sad: at least 28,000 officially declared cases."

"More than 11,000 deaths. "Neighboring countries have been hit hard."

"We had 70 suspect patients but fortunately no confirmed cases."

"The health infrastructures implemented with the Government and our partners have enabled us to rapidly face the situation."