VectorNet: Putting Vectors on the Map

Marieta Braks; Francis Schaffner; Jolyon M. Medlock; Eduardo Berriatua; Thomas Balenghien; Andrei Daniel Mihalca; Guy Hendrickx; Cedric Marsboom; Wim Van Bortel; Renate C. Smallegange; Hein Sprong; Céline M. Gossner; Ewelina Czwienczek; Sofie Dhollander; Olivier Briët; William Wint

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.809763

VectorNet: Putting Vectors on the Map

Marieta Braks^*
, Francis Schaffner
, Jolyon M. Medlock
, Eduardo Berriatua
, Thomas Balenghien
, Andrei Daniel Mihalca
, Guy Hendrickx
, Cedric Marsboom
, Wim Van Bortel
, Renate C. Smallegange
, Hein Sprong
, Céline M. Gossner
, Ewelina Czwienczek
, Sofie Dhollander
, Olivier Briët
, William Wint

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Public and animal health authorities face many challenges in surveillance and control of vector-borne diseases. Those challenges are principally due to the multitude of interactions between vertebrate hosts, pathogens, and vectors in continuously changing environments. VectorNet, a joint project of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) facilitates risk assessments of VBD threats through the collection, mapping and sharing of distribution data for ticks, mosquitoes, sand flies, and biting midges that are vectors of pathogens of importance to animal and/or human health in Europe. We describe the development and maintenance of this One Health network that celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2020 and the value of its most tangible outputs, the vector distribution maps, that are freely available online and its raw data on request. VectorNet encourages usage of these maps by health professionals and participation, sharing and usage of the raw data by the network and other experts in the science community. For the latter, a more complete technical description of the mapping procedure will be submitted elsewhere.

Original language	English
Article number	809763
Journal	Frontiers in Public Health
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.809763
Publication status	Published - 4 Apr 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information: GH and CM are employed by AviaGis and FS by Francis
Schaffner Consultancy/Mabritec AG, Riehen. RS is employed by Wageningen
Academic Publishers. WW was employed by Environmental Research Group
Oxford Ltd.

The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of
any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential
conflict of interest.

Open Access: This is an open-access article distributed under the
terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution
or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and
the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal
is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or
reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2022 Braks, Schaffner, Medlock, Berriatua, Balenghien, Mihalca, Hendrickx, Marsboom, Van Bortel, Smallegange, Sprong, Gossner, Czwienczek, Dhollander, Briët and Wint.

Citation: Braks M, Schaffner F, Medlock JM, Berriatua E, Balenghien T, Mihalca AD,
Hendrickx G, Marsboom C, Van Bortel W, Smallegange RC, Sprong H, Gossner CM, Czwienczek E, Dhollander S, Briët O and Wint W (2022) VectorNet: Putting Vectors on the Map. Front. Public Health 10:809763.

DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.809763

Keywords

biting midges
geographical distribution
mapping
mosquitoes
sand flies
ticks
vector-borne diseases

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Braks, M., Schaffner, F., Medlock, J. M., Berriatua, E., Balenghien, T., Mihalca, A. D., Hendrickx, G., Marsboom, C., Van Bortel, W., Smallegange, R. C., Sprong, H., Gossner, C. M., Czwienczek, E., Dhollander, S., Briët, O., & Wint, W. (2022). VectorNet: Putting Vectors on the Map. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, Article 809763. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.809763

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