The Viroclime project (Impact of climate change on management, destination and risk of viral pathogens in water), supported by Fiotec, investigates the possible variations in viral concentrations due to climate change and/or practices in water management in Brazil, Spain, Hungary, Greece and Sweden - countries vulnerable to these changes. The proposal is to create a new approach to the management of water-related damage and the risk of contamination of the population by viral diseases identified through tools that will represent the processes, and prepare prognosis.

The methodology consists of standardized collection of water in strategic areas of the countries being analyzed. In Brazil, the case study was to detect adenovirus, norovirus, rotavirus and JC polyomavirus in Rio Negro, in Manaus, at points located in the districts of Ponta Negra, São Raimundo, Educandos and Colônia Oliveira Machado. The choice for Amazon was made due to its microbial diversity and epidemic problems faced by the local population.

Researcher Marize Miagostovich, project coordinator and organizer of an event held at Instituto [Institute] Oswaldo Cruz (IOC /Fiocruz) to debate it, has explained in an interview for the Communication Department of the unit that the core idea is to integrate epidemiological, geological and weather data, which subjected to modeling techniques may predict future scenarios of viral contamination.

IOC/Fiocruz is involved in this research with Aberystwyth University (UK), University of Barcelona (Spain), National Institute of Environmental Health in Hungary, Public Health Wales (UK), University of Patras (Greece) and University of Umeå (Sweden).