[转移帖] Fire at Pasteur Institute in Paris

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原帖由rojjer发表于 2008-12-25 18:46：



Update: The fire has been put out the cause is still unknown, staff have been let back into the building. The extent of damage is being investigated and no sensitive materials were affected by the fire.

  The fire broke out mid-morning in an underground level of one of the buildings in the institute's campus in southern Paris, a lab that conducts research in developmental biology, the official said. The Paris fire department said 17 fire engines were sent to the site. All those inside the lab building were evacuated but were let back in after the fire was extinguished at midday, the institute official said.
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The cause of the fire is not known yet and there are not any reports of injuries at this time, more to follow.

Fire breaks out in famed French biology institute (AP)
24 Dec 2008 at 11:05am
AP - Seventeen fire engines are fighting a fire at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, famed worldwide for research in fighting infectious diseases.
Source: vinnyswebsite.com

The Pasteur Institute (French: Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, its founder and first director, who had successfully developed the first antirabies serum in 1885. It was founded on June 4, 1887 and inaugurated on November 14, 1888. For over a century, the Institut Pasteur has been at the forefront of the battle against infectious disease. This worldwide biomedical research organization based in Paris was the first to isolate HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in 1983. Over the years, it has been responsible for breakthrough discoveries that have enabled medical science to control such virulent diseases as diphtheria, tetanus, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, influenza, yellow fever and plague. Since 1908, eight Pasteur Institute scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology, and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is going to be shared with two Pasteur scientists.
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