The Amazon, Viruses, and Vampires: what a year of 1H-EID webinars revealed to the world.

From Gold to Snakes: Living Alongside the Forest.

What happens when humans push further into the Amazon rainforest? The One Health Research in French Amazonia series, chaired by Professor Loïc Epelboin, answered from the field. Dr. Maylis Douine spoke about malaria among illegal gold miners; Professor Hatem Kallel detailed snakebite envenomations; Dr. Roxane Schaub explored leprosy at the human-animal-environment interface; Dr. Paul Le Turnier presented his research on leptospirosis in French Amazonia. And Dr. Benoît de Thoisy delivered one of the most-watched sessions of all: rabies in French Guiana, from the virome to the social behavior of vampire bats.

Twenty Years of Scientific Memory.

Other sessions took a diachronic approach: Jean-Bernard Duchemin looked back on decades of research in medical entomology, Guillaume Odonne paved the way for Amazonian ethnomedicine, and Antoine Adenis—alongside Loïc Epelboin on Q fever—reflected on two decades of field research in French Guiana. Loïc Epelboin and Solen Kernéis also hosted an exceptional session on the little-known history of the Maripa virus and hantavirus, with Paul Le Turnier giving the final presentation, Research on Leptospirosis in French Amazonia.

Rethinking the Epidemic.

The second series, the Human & Social Sciences Webinar Series of the Graduate School One Health and Emerging Infectious Diseases, chaired by Jules Villa, brought a perspective that biomedicine alone cannot offer. Anthropologist Laëtitia Atlani-Duault opened the series by questioning what memories remain of the Covid-19 pandemic. Freya Jephcott interrogated “scientific hallucinations” in epidemic investigations; Frédéric Keck explored the politics of zoonoses and what it means to live alongside animals in an age of pandemic viruses; and Dr. Emmanuelle Roth revealed the infrastructural insecurities behind bat sampling for epidemic preparedness.

A Community, Not an Audience.

Have you been following our webinars from the start? Or did you just discover this community? Either way, you’re joining 1,500 people who, from French Guiana, Suriname, Brazil, Algeria, Senegal, Poland, or Pakistan, share the same conviction: understanding re-emerging diseases means bringing together the lab, the field, the patient, and history.

The story continues. Watch all the replays on the 1H-EID YouTube channel, and don’t miss the next session, held once or twice a month, open to all.

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Series: One Health Research in French Amazonia, chaired by Professor Loïc Epelboin.

1. Malaria research among illegal gold miners in the Amazon. Maylis Douine.
2. Snakebite Envenomations in the Amazon: An Integrative Research Approach. Hatem Kallel.
3. Integrative approach to leprosy in French Guiana: human-animal-environment interface. Roxane Schaub.
4. Rabies in French Guiana: from the virome to the social behavior of vampires. Benoît De Thoisy.
5. 20 Years of One Health Research on Coxiella burnetii Infection in French Amazonia. Loïc Epelboin.
6. Mosquitoes, Viruses & Humans: Medical Entomology Research in French Amazonia. Jean-Bernard Duchemin.
7. An Ethnomedicinal Approach to Major Amazonian Diseases. Guillaume Odonne.
8. Revealed by 20 Years of Research in French Guiana and elsewhere. Antoine Adenis.
9. Research on Hantavirus in French Guiana: the History of Maripa Virus. Loïc Epelboin & Solen Kernéis.
10. Research on Leptospirosis in French Amazonia. Paul Le Turnier.

Series: Human & Social Sciences Webinar Series of the Graduate School One Health and Emerging Infectious Diseases, chaired by Jules Villa.

1. Quelles mémoires de la pandémie Covid-19 ? Laëtitia Atlani-Duault.
2. Scientific Hallucinations: Unreal Landscapes in Epidemic Investigations. Freya Jephcott.
3. Politique des zoonoses. Vivre avec les animaux au temps des virus pandémiques. Frédéric Keck.
4. Echoes of Ebola: Infrastructural Insecurities in Bat Sampling for Epidemic Preparedness. Emmanuelle Roth.