One Health site visits during SEAOHUN 2022 International Conference

To kick off the SEAOHUN 2022 International Conference, a One Health site visit to Chonburi province was organized for 40 participants on 5 September. Hosted by the Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinical Center (TRC EIDCC), King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital and School of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, the visit started at Wat Luang Phrommawat, a Buddhist temple and a home to Lyle's flying foxes (Pteropus lylei). The flying foxes, while critical to the ecosystem, is a natural reservoir of Nipah virus. In Thailand, Nipah virus was first found in 2002 but there is no report of infection in pigs or humans. The visit included a brief presentation from the Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University on the foods these bats eat and how data related to them are collected using high-resolution GPS tracking. Safe and effective techniques to collect pooled bat urine samples to test for #Nipahvirus were demonstrated.