Author: OneHealthPact

A migratory bird tested positive for West Nile Virus in the Netherlands. The bird was caught in August during routine sampling in the region of Utrecht. West Nile Virus is a disease transmitted by mosquitoes, making it a type of an arbovirus. Humans, and other mammalian species such as...

Waterrijke landen als Nederland zijn kwetsbaar voor uitbraken van infectieziekten. Marion Koopmans, hoogleraar virologie, coördinator van het onderzoeksproject One Health PACT en Scientific Director Emerging Infectious Diseases NCOH, leidt het multidisciplinair onderzoek naar hoe we ons...

In October 2019, the Dutch television program “De Kennis van Nu” (The Knowledge of Now) created an episode about mosquitoes and disease “ziekmakende muggen” (mosquitoes that spread diseases). In this episode, several One Health PACT consortium members were interviewed.  From Erasmus...

Rotterdam, 12 June 2019 – Coming five years, Erasmus MC, together with partners from the Netherlands Centre for One Health, will investigate how the Netherlands can be better prepared for infectious diseases transmitted by mosquitoes. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded almost 9...