Sign in

Epidesa

@epidesa.bsky.social
232 followers 40 following 11 posts

The animal health epidemiology team of INRAE & ENVT. Dedicated to improving farmer & livestock well-being through innovative disease management strategies, fostering sustainable animal production and informed decision-taking 🛟🇫🇷🧑‍🌾🦆🐓🐄🐖

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Epidesa
INRAE_France @inrae-france.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
#RP_INRAE Peste porcine africaine : des scientifiques d’INRAE, de @envt.bsky.social et de @anses-fr.bsky.social ont créé un modèle original pour évaluer les transmissions entre porcs domestiques et sangliers, mettant en évidence une transmission bidirectionnelle. 👉 url.inrae.fr/4det9nr
056
Reposted by Epidesa
Brandon Hayes @brandonhayes.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Thrilled to share our latest pub in @natcomms.nature.com, where we quantify interspecific transmission contributions to ASF epidemic spread. Sincerest thanks to both co-authors and reviewers! rdcu.be/faKf9 @timvergne.bsky.social @envt.bsky.social @anses-fr.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social
rdcu.be
A multi-host mechanistic model of African swine fever emergence and control in Romania
Nature Communications - African swine fever is an important disease of domestic pigs that can also affect wild boars. Here the authors use a multi-host mechanistic model to investigate the relative...
131
Epidesa @epidesa.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Congratulations @pierrebessiere.bsky.social @brandonhayes.bsky.social and colleagues on their latest collaboration, here mapping FIV seroprevalence, predictors, and genetic diversity in French cats. Chapeau! @envt.bsky.social
030
Reposted by Epidesa
HPAI Modelling Challenge @hpai-mod-challenge.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
‼️Last week to register‼️ @all-you- talented-math-statistics-computer science-epidemiology-public health groups. Come have fun contributing to HPAI response capacity-building before the next epidemic hits 🐓🦠
031
Epidesa @epidesa.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Congrats @claireguinat.bsky.social for this important investigation into drivers of avian influenza spread !
030
Reposted by Epidesa
Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · 23/09/2025
a bit delayed, but still hot: ‪‪A phylodynamic study, conducted in southwestern France, on the importance of farm density when it comes to avian influenza spread: www.nature.com/articles/s42... @claireguinat.bsky.social @epidesa.bsky.social
nature.com
Poultry farm density and proximity drive highly pathogenic avian influenza spread - Communications Biology
A study using phylodynamics to investigate highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N8 spread in southwestern France in 2020 and 2021 demonstrates that a single introduction led to rapid spread, mainly in duck farms, with farm density driving transmission.
053
Epidesa @epidesa.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Interested in showcasing your infectious disease modelling skills? Want to help hone your teams' outbreak response capabilities in a simulated peacetime setting? Registration for the first-ever HPAI Modelling Challenge is now open!
051
Reposted by Epidesa
Claire Guinat @claireguinat.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
#TrackFLU meet Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia to discuss how wild bird data could help explain #HPAI virus circulation in domestic birds. Potential collaboration for our next field study later this year! @epidesa.bsky.social @institutpasteur.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social
051
Reposted by Epidesa
Claire Guinat @claireguinat.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
📢 New paper out! Since Oct 2023, France has vaccinated ducks against HPAI. Outbreaks dropped sharply. We estimated 314–756 outbreaks were expected, but saw 96–99% fewer. Vaccination likely key, but other factors still to explore. doi.org/10.3201/eid3... @epidesa.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social
0105
Epidesa @epidesa.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🐔🔐 Well done Rebecca, Oksana, and Mattias with excellent presentations at the first conference of the World Animal Biosecurity Association. From participatory research to practical policy discussion, collective action with farmers policy-makers and researchers is the way forward.
Biosecurity presentation by RebeccaBiosecurity presentation by Oksana Biosecurity presentation by Mattias
041
Reposted by Epidesa
Claire Guinat @claireguinat.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This month, we're hosting Yik Lim Hew, PhD candidate from Hokkaido University 🇯🇵. His research dives into the epidemiology of #HPAI in Japan, and during his stay, he’ll be investigating outbreaks: tracking introductions, regional spread, and species jumps using #phylodynamics. @epidesa.bsky.social
051
Reposted by Epidesa
Claire Guinat @claireguinat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
📢 New paper out! 🦆 Our latest study on HPAI in France and risk mapping has just been published doi.org/10.1371/jour... @epidesa.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social @anses-fr.bsky.social ENVT ULB
doi.org
Spatial risk modelling of highly pathogenic avian influenza in France: Fattening duck farm activity matters
In this study, we present a comprehensive analysis of the key spatial risk factors and predictive risk maps for HPAI infection in France, with a focus on the 2016–17 and 2020–21 epidemic waves. Our fi...
2155
Epidesa @epidesa.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Chuffed to see our colleagues at @bioepar-dynamo.bsky.social have joined up!
030
Reposted by Epidesa
Timothée Vergne @timvergne.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
How to conduct #surveillance in duck flocks vaccinated against highly pathogenic avian influenza #HPAI in order to have sensitive and timely detection of HPAI virus introduction? 👉Better test few dead animals than large samples of live animals Evidence here: wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
wwwnc.cdc.gov
Surveillance Strategy in Duck Flocks Vaccinated against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus
Duck Flocks Vaccinated against HPAIV
2145
Epidesa @epidesa.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The marathon of celebrations has begun! Happy Xmas (epidemiologic)ugly jumper month!
081
Reposted by Epidesa
Brandon Hayes @brandonhayes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Looking for an epidemiology PhD and interested in elucidating vaccination strategies against avian influenza? Two exciting projects with great supervisors are currently recruiting! iddjobs.org/jobs/optimiz... spell.ulb.be/news/phdstud...
iddjobs.org
IDDjobs — Optimizing poultry vaccination strategies against highly pathogenic avian influenza to support policy — INRAE
Find infectious disease dynamics modelling jobs, studentships, and fellowships.
01213
Epidesa @epidesa.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Welcome @efsa-eu.bsky.social! If your work is in or tangential to food safety 🥩🦺⛑️, agriculture 🚜🌾, or animal health and welfare 🐮🧑‍🌾, be sure to follow this account for the latest developments in the field
020
Epidesa @epidesa.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
PhD opportunity! In the MSCA Doctoral Network VIVACE, (vivace.hub.inrae.fr/news2) on HPAI transmission modelling to inform poultry vaccination strategies. Supervised by @timvergne.bsky.social (INRAE/ENVT) and Jose Luis Gonzales Rojas @w-u-r.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ycxy8dhm jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-23143
iddjobs.org
IDDjobs — Optimizing poultry vaccination strategies against highly pathogenic avian influenza to support policy — INRAE
Find infectious disease dynamics modelling jobs, studentships, and fellowships.
064
Epidesa @epidesa.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Très fiers de notre postdoc @sebastienlambert.bsky.social dont l'article publié chez M/S présentant une synthèse des travaux de #recherche sur la transmission de la #brucellose chez les #bouquetins a reçu le grand prix éditorial 2024 du SPEPS ! 📰👉 www.medecinesciences.org/fr/articles/...
031
Reposted by Epidesa
Timothée Vergne @timvergne.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thrilled to share our work on the influence of wild boar density on the spread of African swine fever #ASF in northern Italy (Jan 2022 - Sep 2023). Our model reproduced observed ASF dynamics and showed that wild boar density shaped the second ASF wave only. www.efsa.europa.eu/en/supportin...
0102
Reposted by Epidesa
Brandon Hayes @brandonhayes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Chuffed to share our latest #EFSA report, investigating the impact of wild boar density on #ASF spread by calibrating a spatially-explicit mechanistic transmission model to high-resolution surveillance data in northern Italy 🕵️🐗🦠🧮🗺️📈 @timvergne.bsky.social @borizook.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yb5s9n6a
efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Elucidating the influence of wild boar density on African swine fever spread in wild boar populations, Italy, 2022–2023
You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.
3104
Reposted by Epidesa
Timothée Vergne @timvergne.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hot from the @eurosurveillance.bsky.social press! In this perspective article, we discuss the need for a paradigm shift in highly pathogenic avian influenza #HPAI management #policies. This should impact the way poultry are produced an traded in the future. Full text: tinyurl.com/mtr3kahd
tinyurl.com
Highly pathogenic avian influenza management policy in domestic poultry: from reacting to preventing
The emergence of clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses in 2021 has led to unprecedented epidemics in poultry, changing epidemiological patterns of year-round infections ...
0137
Reposted by Epidesa
Timothée Vergne @timvergne.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
[PhD position] Please share! Looking for a motivated PhD candidate to work in our MSCA Doctoral Network #VIVACE (vivace.hub.inrae.fr/news2) on highly pathogenic avian influenza #HPAI transmission #modelling to inform vaccination strategies. 👉 jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-23143 @inrae-france.bsky.social
273
Reposted by Epidesa
Brandon Hayes @brandonhayes.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Welcome to all the newcomers! I will maintain the list of folks in animal health/animal welfare/veterinary medicine. If you want to be included, please message me or reply to this post and i'll add you. Also, please share with your network! go.bsky.app/6wvTJFK
294228