The Laureate of the 2003 Institut Pasteur-UNESCO Medal is Professor Fadila Boulahbal from Algeria, a specialists in tuberculosis.

UNESCO: Science Policy and Capacity-Building

Mr Schwartz is a former director of the Institut Pasteur in France, and his book maps out with great clarity the scientific investigation into how scrapie a disease that has long been known to afflict sheep came to cross the species barrier to cows, and then from cows to humans.

ECONOMIST: Food safety