One Health PACT
Predicting Arboviruses Climate Tipping points
The One Health PACT consortium is a research collaboration that brings together experts from various disciplines across the Netherlands. We aim to gain systemic understanding of mosquito-borne diseases and of how their emergence and transmission is influenced by major environmental and social changes.
On the news page of our website you can find updates on our projects and news articles on exciting findings and events within our project.
Unlike the last couple of months we didn’t find a lot of mozzies in their usual hideouts today anymore, unfortunately 🦟. However, we did find some insects we didn’t spot there yet, such as these crane flies and chironomids!
The main goal of my PhD project is to explore how the spread of mosquito-borne diseases is affected by the species interactions. Ok but what does this mean? (A short thread)
Thanks, colleagues from the UK, for another piece of work that provides important input for modelling: effect of vaccination (AZ and pfizer) on transmission. After single dose, similar reduction for bothe vaccines in households https://khub.net/documents/135939561/390853656/Impact+of+vaccination+on+household+transmission+of+SARS-COV-2+in+England.pdf/35bf4bb1-6ade-d3eb-a39e-9c9b25a8122a?t=1619551571214
Hey! I'm @afonsodmartins, a PhD student from the @UniUtrecht. I'm taking over this account for the next 2 weeks where I'll be sharing some of the goals of my project and updates from my colleagues at the #OHPACT consortium. Stay tuned!
@MarionKoopmans @ncohnl
Vanmorgen in Vroege Vogels heb ik samen met Frank Majoor over mijn onderzoek naar het immuunsysteem bij merels in stedelijk- en bosgebieden gesproken. Ook u kunt bijdragen, door uw broedende merel in de gaten te houden! @niooknaw @OneHealthPact @Sovon https://twitter.com/VroegeVogels/status/1388810498800500738
Iedereen kan de merel in z'n eigen tuin in de gaten houden. Je moet natuurlijk wel terughoudend zijn en de vogel niet verstoren! Doe mee met het merelonderzoek van @SOVON. @NPORadio1 https://www.nporadio1.nl/natuur-milieu/31317-helft-van-de-merels-verdwenen-doe-mee-aan-landelijk-onderzoek
Every week, the Public Health Virology team @ErasmusMC receives samples collected from wild birds across the Netherlands and screens them for #arboviruses. Pics: @TjommeM & M. Groen ringing and sampling birds, sample unpacking and @AtamaNnomzie testing by RT-PCR. #OneHealth
Very nice study out in @eLife: metatranscriptomics of 148 individual mosquitoes from California links mosquito species identification, microbiota characterization, blood meal host identification and pathogen detection from the blood meal. 👉https://elifesciences.org/articles/68353
Mosquito #metagenomics paper with the wonderful team at Biohub was just published in @eLife (thanks to heroic efforts by @amykczb): https://elifesciences.org/articles/68353. The pandemic derailed this project many times & I promise to write a long blog post about it as soon as SARS-CoV-2 allows.
Vanavond 19.30 uur @RTLnieuws: coördinator One Health Pact @MarionKoopmans vertelt meer over de impact van klimaatveranderingen op het voorkomen van bepaalde muggen in Nederland. Ook is RTL op pad geweest met de NVWA in Zuid-Limburg: https://bit.ly/2R3UfFV
#OneHealth 🦟 | In February, WUR researchers called on the Dutch to ‘whack a mosquito and mail it’. And they did. @OneHealthEnto received between 5000 and 6000 envelopes containing dead mosquitos, says @BlomRody to @ResourceWUR.
Two thousand envelopes to go - Resource online
'Whack a mosquito and mail it' was a big success.
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Preprint involving Mathilde Uiterwijk and #OHPACT members @Ibanez_Bros Arjan Stroo @heinsprong available at . The study shows that Hyalomma ticks are regularly introduced in NL as nymphs, and are able to moult to adult stage under Dutch weather conditions.
Imported Hyalomma Ticks in The Netherlands 2018-2020
Background: Ticks of the genus Hyalomma, which are vectors for several tick-borne diseases, are occasionally found in ...
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One Health PACT with project number 109986 is (partly) financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).