Video 'Expedition Inkanamongo' - In search of the source of zoonoses in DR Congo

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Biologist Nicolas Laurent and his research team go on an expedition to the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the remote village of Inkanamongo. The goal: find viruses in mammals to investigate how biodiversity loss affects the emergence of zoonotic diseases such as Ebola, Monkeypox, and those linked to Coronaviruses.

Production: Stijn Pardon and Nicolas Laurent, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Project: BIODIV-AFREID.

Partners: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, UAntwerpen, Centre de Surveillance de la Biodiversité, Université de Kisangani (UNIKIS), Université de Kinshasa (UNIKIN), Robert Kock Institute, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), L’Institut National de Recherche Biomédical (INRB Kinshasa), the programmes EboVac and Biodiversa, European Commission.

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