ZOOCAM project - video

The Camargue (Rhône Delta, France) is a temperate ecosystem that is conducive to the emergence and spread of zoonotic diseases.
Faced with this challenge, and at a time when the One Health approach has focused mainly on tropical and intertropical regions, a CNRS Health-Environment-Camargue Workshop Zone is being set up.

The aim is to bring together health-environment research in the Camargue using an integrative, interdisciplinary approach to provide local players with practical solutions.
The ZOOCAM project aims to answer the following questions:

1) What are the dynamics of circulating/emerging zoonotic agents in the Camargue ?
2) What human and environmental factors influence the spread of zoonotic agents ?
3) Can current and emerging zoonotic risks be modelled/predicted ?
4) How is the risk perceived by local stakeholders ?

Olivier Rey (IHPE), is PI of the WP2, which is looking at trematodes, parasites present in aquatic environments that have major health consequences for humans and domestic animals. Although little is known about these parasites, the research carried out as part of ZOOCAM aims to better anticipate trematode-related diseases in a context of environmental change, particularly as a result of increasing anthropisation and the use of pesticides in the Camargue rice fields.