Under the ANR project "ZooCov: Toward an integrated surveillance of potential zoonotic Betacoronavirus in the wild animal value chains of Cambodia", the Cirad, IPC, WCS and IDE are organising a serie of 8 webinars untittled "Surveillance and evaluation for integrated wildlife monitoring" from the 4th February to the 1st March 2021. The webinars will cover topics about Syndromic, wildlife and OH surveillance, qualitative approaches and evaluation (methods and tools) of sureillance systems. The speakers are all recognized researchers in their field belonging to CIRAD, WCS or IDE. The talks will be organised every Monday and Thursday for 2 hours until March.

The first session will start this Thursday, February 4 at 1 pm (BKK time) with an introduction on surveillance systems presented by F. Goutard (Cirad Bangkok - GREASE coordinator), the presentation will be followed by questions and discussion, and will end before 3 pm.

About Project:

"Toward an integrated surveillance of potentialzoonotic Betacoronaviruses in the wild animal valuechains of Cambodia" study on bushmeat value chains,trade and consumption in 2 Cambodian provinces, andassessment of the risk of BetaCov spill-over at the human/wildlife interface. The project is implemented due to the discovery of virus has been found in bushmeat. Naturally hosted in wild animals such as bats, betacoronaviruses (beta-CoVs) are responsible for severe and fatal human respiratory infections. The project will provide knowledge on cultural, sociological and ecological factors driving beta-CoVs spread to humans and emergence are limited.

Workpackage 4 or WP4 is one of the four packages of the project, which studies on "One health surveillance of betacoronaviruses circulation at the wildlife-human interface and of the risk of emergency". The objective of the study is the development of a framework to incorporate an early detection of viral spill-over events into wildlife health surveillance system(WHSS) using the results of the three other WPs.

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