The expansion of Ae. albopictus in the Iberian Peninsula and the arrival of Ae. aegypti to the Canary Islands have increased the risk of serious outbreaks of dengue, chikungunya or Zika in Spain.
Many organisms form social systems, but most research does not consider collective processes to explain their ecological and evolutionary consequences for individuals and populations in stochastic environments. This application will help produce a new synthesis hitherto not considered.
This proposal aims to study the processes linked to life in groups (which we call sociality) in an ecological framework, assembling data (both laboratory and field) to theory.
The project consists of creating a Versatile Observatory of Emerging Infectious Diseases (VEO) that makes it possible to bring together high-quality information from which to develop early warning tools. The Observatory will monitor emerging infectious diseases, as well as the emergence of bacterial resistance, in order to carry out a risk assessment.
The great heterogeneity in individual behavior as well as between different groups translates into a variability in human-mosquito interaction, and therefore in a variability in the risk of disease transmission. This relationship not only depends on the density of mosquitoes and people in an area but on many other factors.
The One Health PACT team focuses primarily on vector-borne diseases, primarily mosquitoes. With a comprehensive vision of this problem, the impact of climate change, water management, agricultural and livestock methods, and the importation of diseases through trade and tourism, on the probability of an outbreak, is investigated.
Our proposal is a collaboration between all the CSIC Institutes that work in marine sciences and aims to develop a comprehensive scientific dissemination program about marine ecosystems, their importance, the threats they face and what we can do as citizens.
The overall goal of the MOBVEC project is to create technology that is the first line of defense against disease vectors, helps prevent and combat disease outbreaks, and helps save lives.
Outbreaks of infectious diseases are increasing due to multiple changes in local and global interactions that alter the fragile balance of the complex human-animal-environment ecosystem. The increased frequency and complexity of health threats require a different and unified way of preparedness and a coordinated, rapid, reliable and effective emergency response.
E4Warning is an holistic approach to improve our understanding of the interplay between humans, mosquitoes, reservoir species and the environment for a better disease intelligence capable of anticipating and identifying mosquito-borne diseases epidemic risk and outbreaks.
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