The National Institute of Tropical Medicine of Argentina: a One Health-Eco Health project

RIVERO MR; PEICHOTO ME; HUMERES C; SALOMÓN OD

Melbourne

Congreso; One Health EcoHealth 2016; 2016

International association for ecology and health

The National Institute of Tropical Medicine of Argentina- INMeT- was created in 2011, it belongs to the Ministry of Health, and half of the staff are researchers from the Ministry of Science and Technology. The location of INMeT is in the border with Brazil and Paraguay, in an area of mixed landscapes of preserved forest (Iguazu Waterfall National Park), rural and urban environments. Rangers, farmers, aboriginal people, urban services-related people, researchers, tourists (> 1200000/year), domestic (pets and livestock) , synanthropic and wild animals are living or circulating in this patched subtropical environments, ecotones and international borders. The missions and objectives of INMeT were developed by a collective construction with a multidisciplinary group of experts, followed with an extended Internet-consultation. Therefore, the theoretical frame of the INMeT was defined to be the One Health - EcoHealth multidisciplinary eco-epidemiological approach. The research lines that are currently in progress, are related to zoonotic vector-borne diseases as leishmaniases, yellow fever, dengue virus, tick-related diseases; zoonotic parasites and virus in humans, wild and domestic animals; venoms and envenomation by snakes, caterpillars, accident management and other risks in nature reserves, and social cartography and perception of risk in Mbya Guaraní and peasant communities.