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What is the relation between wildlife and domestic animals when it comes to infectious diseases?

Rodrigo Nova, EuFMD Training Technical Coordinator, discuss with Christian Gortazar, Veterinarian and Professor at the IREC about wildlife infectious diseases and how to reach disease control addressing multi-hosting pathogens.

Christian Gortázar is a veterinary and doctor from the University of Zaragoza. In 1999, he became Associate Professor in the Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha). Since 2003, he is responsible for the Animal Health Unit, currently Research Group in Health and Biotechnology (SaBio). His research activity combines tools of ecology, veterinary science, and biotechnology. This includes viral, bacterial, and parasitic diseases with an emphasis on control of shared problems between wildlife, domestic animals and man, such as tuberculosis or vector-borne infections.

Rodrigo Nova is a veterinarian working at the EuFMD as Training Technical Coordinator for Pillar I activities. His work focus on providing training for Member Nations and supporting the development of veterinary capacity in countries the EuFMD supports. He studied veterinary medicine at the University of Concepcion, Chile, where he later worked in official controls in red meat industry and later on, as a veterinary consultant in food safety for dairy and meat industry. He was awarded a PhD in Food Microbiology from the University of Nottingham (UK) and a Post Graduate Certificate in Veterinary Public Health from the University of Ulster (UK). There, he was appointed as a member of the academic staff at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science University of Nottingham, where he developed the veterinary public health curriculum.