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Animal and Integrated Risk ManagementGRIPAVI: on the avian influenza front
08/11/2011 - Press release
The GRIPAVI project (ecology and epidemiology of avian influenza and Newscastle diseases in developing countries) will be holding its end-of-project conference from 22 to 24 November at CIRAD in Montpellier. The conference title is "Avian influenza dynamics and management: at virus, birds and humans interfaces ".
The GRIPAVI project (2007-2011) was headed by CIRAD and funded by the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, and integrated and coordinated epidemiological, virological and ecological research on avian influenza and Newcastle disease - fowl plagues - in wildfowl and domestic birds in five countries in Africa (Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania and Zimbabwe) and Asia (Vietnam).
A conference, results and prospects
In collaboration with international bodies (
FAO and
OIE), the GRIPAVI project has supported various emergency programmes and coordinated its operations with those of other research projects in Asia and Africa.
Reporting workshops have been organized in Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Ethiopia, and shortly in Mauritania and Mali. The results will be presented at the conference, along with those of six university theses (out of a total of eleven) by students from developing countries. The organizations with which the fieldwork and some thirty Masters courses were carried out will also be attending.
Renowned researchers from Asia and Africa will be leading the following sessions:
- Patterns, epidemiological determinants and ecological correlates of avian virus distribution in wild and domestic animal populations .
- Patterns and drivers of avian influenza virus and Newcastle virus at molecular scale .
- Mechanisms involved in virus introduction and dissemination: animal movement and contact rates .
- Responses to avian influenza and Newcastle disease risk and outbreak: stakeholders and tools
- From flu to emerging diseases: challenges and perspectives .
The conference is open to all (subject to registration) and free of charge.
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