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Republished by Athens Macedonian Press Agency: Cases of Chikungunya and Dengue fever in the EU exceeded those of West Nile this year.

Interview with Sandra Gewehr, Director of Research and Development at Ecodevelopment, at the Athens Macedonian Press Agency regarding cases of Chikungunya and Dengue fever in the EU in 2025. The “tiger” of Asia. The black-and-white striped mosquito that arrived in Europe in the mid-1990s is now reigniting EU concerns about[...]

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Ecodevelopments presents the results of its Precision Agriculture applications at the Kravva Estate to ESA Summer School participants

Dr. Christos Karydas, Director of Precision Agriculture of Ecodevelopment, presented the precision fertilization method that the company has been developing since 2016 and is now being used by Greek rice farmers on about 5,000 acres, as part of an educational demonstration activity at the 14th Educational Seminar on Earth Observation[...]

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MoUs signed with two European Bodies (ITM, Belgium / TPH, Switzerland)

With the signing of two new Memoranda of Understanding (MoU), Eco-Development sealed its intention to develop a framework for joint action with two major European bodies, the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (ITM) and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (TPH). More specifically, the MoU with the Institute[...]

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ARTE documentary dedicated to climate change and mosquito control projects

Given the importance of mosquito-borne diseases in Europe in recent years, especially in the context of climate change, the well-known European channel ARTE, which specializes in the production and broadcasting of television documentaries, has begun production of a documentary on the following topics: How great is the threat to the[...]

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New publication in Nature’s Scientific Reports

This is the fourth time in a row in the last two years that we have published in the prestigious journal Scientific Reports of Nature, an original scientific paper entitled “Extreme flood and WNV transmission in Thessaly, 2023”. The main contributors of this paper are three groups, namely the research[...]

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Francis Schaffner’s Mission for VectorNet in Northern Greece

As part of the VectorNet programme contracted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Francis Schaffner, an internationally renowned expert in the epidemiology and biology of disease vectors and former president of the European Mosquito Control Association (EMCA, 2021–2023), visited[...]

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Demonstration of Aedes/Wolbachia sterile release programme and visit to the National Environment Agency’s sterile male production facility in Singapore

At the invitation of Dr. Ng Lee Ching, Director of the Environmental Health Institute (EHI) of the National Environment Agency (NEA) of Singapore, Spiros Mourelatos attended the release of sterile Aedes aegypti male mosquitoes in an area of the city of Singapore. Later on, he visited the NEA’s main facility,[...]

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Visit of Spiros Mourelatos to the Debug Singapore Production Factory

Debug is a program funded by Google that aims to develop new technologies to combat mosquitoes worldwide. This program involves breeding and releasing sterile male mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia on a large scale in order to reduce populations of wild mosquitoes Aedes aegypti, the main carrier of dengue fever, Zika,[...]