Members of Mosquito Alert carry out stays at research centers around the world to share knowledge and strategies in the study and control of mosquitoes. At CEAB-CSIC, we have also hosted teams from different parts of the world who wanted to learn firsthand about the projects we are developing in this field.
One of these stays is in Tanzania, where there is a significant risk of contracting serious diseases through mosquito bites.
A team from the Ifakara Health Institute in the African country visited CEAB-CSIC this winter to learn about the various research projects we are developing and to see what could be extrapolated to their territory. Now, it is a member of Mosquito Alert – Enric Pou, a technology developer – who has traveled there to understand what they are doing and how they are tackling Aedes mosquitoes.
The one-month stay in Tanzania allows him to see firsthand the work being done in wetlands and other humid areas of the country, other actions aimed at limiting breeding sites (and thus the proliferation of mosquitoes), or the new measures that have been extended to prevent their bites (and, with them, the transmission of the diseases they carry).
Moreover, it allows us to explain in detail to the African teams how the Mosquito Alert citizen science platform works, how it provides valuable information that complements the data obtained directly from other research projects, and how it is being effectively used as a public health tool by the administration.
Finally, it serves to strengthen collaboration by establishing very direct lines of contact and cooperation.
The highlight of the stay will be participation in the First International Congress of the INOVEC project, which will take place in Tanzania at the end of August.
These residencies in other centers around the world are carried out within the framework of this project. They are promoted to foster international collaboration in both research and technological innovation to improve the surveillance and control of mosquitoes that carry arboviruses.
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