From September 18 to 28, 2021 the scientists from St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute visited Institut Pasteur de Dakar (Senegal) in the framework of joint research project “The study of emergent and reemerging zoonotic viruses in Russia and in tropical countries”. The Russian delegation included the Deputy Director for Research Vladimir DEDKOV and the Senior Researcher of the Group for Molecular Genetics of Pathogens of the Institute Anna DOLGOVA.