Useful resources available online from EDENext's Public Health team now include the group's White Paper on Public Health and Vector-Borne Diseases: A New Concept for Risk Governance, in addition to five issues of PUBLICise Health, the newsletter designed to inform interested individuals and institutions about the project’s research results on vector-borne diseases with direct or indirect impacts on Public Health issues.
Researchers have retrospectively studied symptomatic Toscana virus (TOSV) infections in patients hospitalised in France, investigating 17 patients over the period 2004 to 2011.
Researchers have conducted the first comprehensive study on the prevalence of canine vector-borne pathogens in Hungary, filling a large gap in the data available.
Researchers have found the first evidence of the circulation of Dobrava hantavirus (DOBV) in wild rodents and for a DOBV etiology of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Romania.
Researchers recommend that the view of Salehabad species viruses as being of little medical or veterinary interest should be reconsidered following their investigations of a new phlebovirus, Adana virus, in Turkey.
Researchers have investigated for the first time the European spatial distribution of nephropathia epidemica with a rich set of envornmental variables.
Researchers have underlined the importance of determining the role of [[Sergentomyia minuta]] in the transmission of [[Leishmania]] parasites to humans following their molecular detection of [[Leishmania]] DNA and identification of blood meals in wild-caught phlebotomine sand flies in southern Portugal.
Researchers have stressed the importance of alerting the veterinary community, dog owners and public health authorities in southern Portugal following their molecular identification of canine vector-borne diseases in the area, some of zoonotic concern.
An international research team has produced a new ELISA for detecting Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV)-specific antibodies in cattle and used it to detect for the first time the circulation of the virus in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, alongside the presence of its main vector.
Researchers based in Portugal have established that dogs in the south of the country are at risk of leishmaniosis and dirofilariosis, with consequences not only for the veterinary community and local dog owners, but also for tourists visiting the Algarve area with their pets.
Italian researchers have reported on the potential of three adhesive traps for passive monitoring of urban mosquito adult abundance and seasonal dynamics, and for assessing the efficacy of commonly used control measures.
Researchers have reported the discovery of [[Orientia]] DNA in rodents collected from France and Senegal, prompting them to recommend improvements in surveillance for scrub typhus outside Asia, where is it is considered a seriously neglected life-threatening disease.
Researchers have published details of a new laboratory model for xenodiagnostic studies on visceral leishmaniasis hosts, circumventing the need for human volunteers and permitting xenodiagnosis using the same individual host repeatedly, over several months.
Researchers have detected specific [[Dirofilaria repens]] DNA in [[Aedes vexans]] mosquitoes for the first time in the Czech Republic and confirmed the circulation of [[Dirofilaria]] spp. in a natural focus of infection, providing an epidemiological link between autochthonous canine cases and mosquito vectors in the area studied.
Modelling experts have used three different modelling techniques to define the environmental conditions suitable for several mosquito species and to compare the results produced by different approaches.
Researchers say biosecurity risks from bluetongue and African horse sickness viruses need to be re-evaluated as a result of their modelling of the ecoclimate niche of [[Culicoides imicola]], a major arthropod vector of midge-borne viral pathogens affecting ruminants and equids.