PYRTICK

Ticks and diseases transmitted in the Pyrenean environment: updating of knowledge, harmonisation of their study and proposals for the prevention of ticks and the infectious agents they transmit, thus generating a series of maps of distribution, abundance and present and future risk for each of the most relevant tick species and pathogens.

Acronym: PyrTick
Principal Investigator of the project: Javier Millán Gasca
Contact: javier.millan@unizar.es

Total cost: 356.343,92€

FEDER: 231.623,55€

PyrTick was created to coordinate research groups in the western Pyrenees in order to update knowledge of the distribution and ecology of ticks and the infectious agents they transmit through a harmonised methodology and thus generate a series of distribution, abundance and present and future risk maps for each of the most relevant tick species and pathogens. The project will include awareness-raising among the local population, including visits to rural schools, and prevention proposals, which will have positive repercussions in terms of public health both for the inhabitants and workers in the rural areas of the Pyrenees and for the tourists who come to the Pyrenees in large numbers at the time of peak tick activity. PyrTick ultimately aims to consolidate a surveillance network that will last beyond the duration of the project.

The PyrTick project has been co-financed 65% by the European Union through the Interreg VI-A Spain-France-Andorra Programme (POCTEFA 2021-2027). The objective of POCTEFA is to strengthen the economic and social integration of the Spain-France-Andorra border area.