| Detection of an emerging disease is a crucial aspect for animal health. For the french marine mollusc aquaculture the interest is obvious, after three catastrophic epizooties. The methodological approach must be done by three different disciplines : epidemiology, ecology and marine pathology. Those three approachs are complementary in the special context of marine outbreaks. The uncertainty about many criteria and the lack of proofs feasible for showing the causality link, make the different approachs a necessity. The first step is the study of the three boxes, host, agent, environrnent. This approach, made for studying the cockles of the Croisic's bay could help us to make hypothesis about the possible origins ofmortality, and to a void measurement,... |
