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Although vaccination coverage has increased all over the world, vigilance agains measles should not be weakened, since there are still 147,000 deaths per year worldwide. In France, there's been a resurgence of the disease since the late 1980s. An episode of the series "Killer diseases".
From 1980 to the present, 25 million people have died of AIDS on the planet. In 2013, more than 35 million people live with HIV, including 25 million in Africa. Today AIDS has become a chronic disease accompanied by antiretrovirals. But still no vaccine...
Sleeping sickness has always been present in Africa. The cause of the disease is a parasite, the trepanosome, and the vector is the fly Tsé tse. In areas where this disease is almost extinct, the vigilance of health services must remain high...
Tuberculosis is as old as man. Robert Koch, in 1882, highlights the bacillus that will bear his name, but until the 20th century, only the improvement of living conditions and hygiene reduce the disease.
Maryline Loscos is a telecom engineer at CNES at CSG, Europe's spaceport. Its role is to implement all the means of communication used during the launch of the Ariane rocket.
Marina Rantanen is a young graduate in training at ESA (ESTEC). She likes to work on technologies that will one day be embedded in space.
On mission aboard the International Space Station, Samantha Cristoforetti, 37, an Esa astronaut, is the first European woman to have been in space since Claudie Haigneré. An aerospace engineer, she is also a fighter pilot, a graduate of the École de l'Air and the top of her class in 2005.
Gaitée Hussain is an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany. Her job consists in studying the planets around stars other than the Sun and discovering those that would potentially be habitable.
Koralika is an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in Santiago, Chile.
Engineer Géraldine Magnan works on the highest part of the Ariane launcher at the Guyana Space Centre in Kourou, on electrical installations.
At the Yuri Gargarin cosmonaut training centre in Moscow, Ksenia is an instructor on the Russian part of space missions. She explains that her passion for everything related to the space conquest goes back to childhood....
Marina Rantanen is working on the "Eurobot" astromobile as part of the Meteron project. This project imagines other ways to explore space.
