Identification Of Animal To Human Spillover

Understanding the origin and progression of emerging, re-emerging, and novel infectious diseases is critically important to diminishing the impact of epidemic threats.  

Whether naturally occurring or intentionally introduced, such diseases pose a massive risk to global health and require active vigilance for signs of spillover, rapid recognition, and accurate diagnosis of the microbial cause.   

Metabiota has been on the forefront of pathogen detection and discovery, providing the scientific knowledge and leadership necessary to anticipate, validate, and help mitigate outbreak threats.

OUR CAPABILITIES INCLUDE:

• Microbial threat and behavioral risk assessments
• Development and implementation of spillover investigation plans
• Development of scientific capacity for diagnostic collection and testing
• Integration in-country surveillance and epidemic intelligence
• Technical support for governments in epidemiology, microbiology, behavioral and biological risk analytics, genomics, threat assessment and gap analysis
• Facilitate development of public health capacity
• Next generation genomic analyses
• Food supply chain risk analytics

Case Studies

EIDITH PROJECT

Metabiota’s infectious disease knowledge and expertise is at work around the world helping to detect, analyze, investigate, and mitigate biological threats.

Find out how we've helped. Big data on little animals: the Emerging Infectious Disease Information Technology Hub (EIDITH) is a wildlife data management system that tracks specimens and associated metadata for the PREDICT project, which is developing the capacity in the developing world to thwart emerging diseases with potential to spread to humans.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Implementing virus discovery in 10 countries in Africa and Asia (2009-2019, PREDICT project).
• Discovery of a Novel Rhabdovirus: named Bas Congo virus , the virus groups with arthropod-borne Rhabdoviruses, genetically close to Tibrogargan Rhabdovirus group and, 41% identity to Coastal Plains virus (2011).
• Discovery of the gorilla reservoir for human T-lymphotropic virus type 4 (2014)
• Implementing a disease data management system in the low-resource countries in Africa and Asia (EIDITH)

PREDICT PROJECT FOR USAID

Metabiota is an implementing partner for USAID’s PREDICT project, along with University of California at Davis, EcoHealth Alliance, Smithsonian Institution, and Wildlife Conservation Society with support from Columbia and Harvard universities.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Assisting in diagnostic investigations of animal mortality events (Cameroon, DRC; 2014, 2016)