Researchers from all continents will meet at the Tonnara Museum in Stintino from 3 to 6 June for a workshop. The objective is to create an international network for the monitoring and surveillance of zoonoses and diseases transmitted by vectors (ticks, mosquitoes and other insects), including blue tongue, deer haemorrhagic disease, Nile fever , just to mention the best known.

The project , financed by the University of Lancaster (UK), was carried out thanks to the collaboration with researchers from the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Sassari .

There will be 20 international experts from 10 nations and in particular from Algeria, Colombia, France, Italy, Pakistan, Northern Ireland, England, Egypt, Israel, South Africa and Senegal, who will work together coordinated by Dr. Luigi Sedda, a Sardinian researcher from Lancaster Medical School (UK) and project leader.

Dr. Sedda comments: «It is an honor for me to coordinate this international working group in Sardinia, an island which due to its geographical location and climate is at the forefront with innovative projects on the surveillance of vector-borne animal and human diseases».

The workshop is open to postgraduates and doctoral students of the University of Sassari to promote knowledge and research on this important topic . sponsored by the Tonnara Museum of Stintino, World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP), Italian Society of Parasitology (SOIPA), Sardinia Tourism of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia.

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