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Epidemiological models for control of arboviral disease for Europe (ArboNet)
Project
Project code: 2815ERA03D, FLI-IfE+INNT-08-HV-0027
Contract period: 01.04.2016
- 31.05.2019
Budget: 138,944 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Emerging and re-emerging infectious viral diseases continue to challenge both animal and human health around the world. For Europe, vector-borne infections, such as mosquito-borne West Nile fever (WNF), and Rift Valley fever (RVF) and tick-borne Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), pose a continuous risk of incursions or northward expansion from endemic areas. The drivers of these infections are multifactorial and include increased mobility of human populations, increased global trade in live animals and foodstuffs, and climate change affecting the geographic distribution and competence of vectors. In addition, persistent arbovirus infections in wildlife pose unprecedented challenges to formulation of proper surveillance and control actions, due to the complexity of the interfaces between different host populations.The proposed initiative 'ARBONET' will be focused on WNF, CCHF and RVF infections, specifically on development of epidemiological models that can inform risk-based surveillance and interventions that can control disease outbreaks in Europe. The major aim of this initiative is to create a multidisciplinary research network combining the expertise of veterinary and human epidemiologists, disease modellers, virologists and arthropod biologists with the following objectives: 1) to perform epidemiological modelling of possible scenarios of CCHFV, RVFV and WNV spread in Europe, evaluating possible risk-based surveillance approaches and outbreak control. The modelling approaches will be assessed for application to a wider range of arthropod-borne diseases to maximise the potential impact of this project, 2) to promote and support epidemiological studies on distribution of viral genetic subpopulations, 3) to increase the actual knowledge of virus-vector and virus-vertebrate host interactions 4) to support dissemination of knowledge on the epidemiology, surveillance and control of these diseases across the affected countries within and outside Europe, by developing e-learning materials. These objectives will be addressed in the following work packages: WP1. Coordination and dissemination; WP2. Epidemiological modelling of virus transmission in Europe; WP3. Biobank, diagnostics development and genomic characterisation; WP4. Interaction with vertebrate hosts; WP5. Interaction with vectors.
Section overview
Subjects
- Animal health
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
FLI - Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases (FLI-INNT)
Participating institutions
- French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES)
- Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
- Pirbright Institute
- Institut Pasteur
- Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Abruzzo and Molise 'G. Caporale' (IZSAM)
- Kimron Veterinary Institute - Research and Diagnostic Labs (KVI)
