This past week, our team conducted preliminary visits to five Cambodian provinces included in the TrackFLU project: Takeo, Prey Veng, Svay Rieng, Kampong Thom and Battambang. These visits were essential to select live bird markets and poultry farms for our upcoming cross-sectional study. The team included Malen Chan, Bastien Malinge, Sovath Rithyvong and Dr. Ren …
One of the goals of the project is to map the poultry trade network across the country and characterize the markets they pass through, as this can influence how avian influenza viruses evolve and spread. To achieve this, we developed questionnaires to track where poultry comes from and goes, and to describe market characteristics. This …
Bastien Malinge, our new PhD student, has just moved to Cambodia to kick off his research. In his first weeks, he visited the Orussey and Chbar Ampov live bird markets with Malen Chan (IPC) and Claire Guinat (INRAE) to get familiar with the local context. He has also met the epi and virology teams and …