Episode 10 - Olivier Briet - Mosquito-borne Diseases and Their Spread in Europe

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

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5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this episode we chat with Olivier Briet, expert on mosquito-borne diseases. He tells us more about which diseases are transmitted by mosquitoes, what effect climate change has on the spread of diseases, and what ECDC does to monitor their spread. As always, you can find more information on this topic on our website: ecdc.europa.eu

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0:00.0	ECDC on air.
0:05.2	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.3	Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.
0:14.4	Hello and welcome to today's episode of ECDC on air.
0:18.2	My name is Nicholas and here with me today I have Olivier Briette, who is an ECDC expert on mosquito-borne diseases.
0:25.2	And he's here to explain a bit more about what kind of a threat these diseases pose to Europe
0:29.7	and the best ways to protect ourselves from them.
0:31.8	Thank you. So welcome here, Olivier, welcome to the show.
0:50.2	Thank you, Nicholas.
0:51.1	I think maybe first of all, let's try and establish a little bit more about what kind of
0:56.4	diseases can be transmitted by mosquitoes.
0:59.1	Can you tell us a bit more about that?
1:00.6	Yeah, so mosquitoes can transmit several types of diseases, so some can be viral diseases,
1:08.9	like dengue or a west Nile virus and they can also transmit parasites
1:13.1	like philuriasis worms which cause for example elephantiasis, elephant's food disease that you've
1:21.2	sometimes seen from exotic pictures from Africa for example and they can also transmit
1:26.3	protozoans like malaria of of course, infamously.
1:30.1	Malaria was historically the most important disease in Europe, so it was only eliminated from
1:35.4	Europe in the late 1970s. And it caused a huge burden of disease in terms of suffering. So not
1:42.3	only large numbers of people were affected, so even countries like the Netherlands,
1:47.7	UK were also affected, so quite northern, but also the malaria could cause suffering and
1:54.7	death.
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