Influenza roadmap:
Control Strategies
Roadmap for the development of disease control strategies for influenza
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Socio-economic aspects
Dependencies
Next steps
Socio-economic aspects
Research Question
- Reduce socio-economic impacts of influenza outbreaks
Research Gaps and Challenges
- Alternative methods to depopulation in case of outbreaks
- Lack of trust of farmers
- Humane treatment of animals, societal animal welfare concerns
- Control strategies that preserve food security and livelihoods
- Lack of people and material during mass outbreaks
- Effective compensation strategies
- Swine flu is very impactful on the pig industry but not much prevented and at the farmer’s expenses while the big risk stands with human
infections and emergence of a pandemic – should the farmers really bear all costs of this prevention?
Solution Routes
- Social sciences studies to understand human behaviors and produce applicable guidelines that could reduce influenza spread and to describe level of acceptance of various measures
- Human-animal interface studies at critical sites, including social and behavioral sciences
- Social studies that evaluate the cost of influenza outbreaks on various communities: rural communities, consumers, regulatory agencies,
poultry production and processing, all stakeholders - Economic models of outbreaks which can be used to evaluate the costs of control strategies
- Quantifying losses comprehensively to convince policy makers and leaders of thoughts on need for investment in controls
- Plan proper communications plans for farmers and for the general public
- Engagement of social scientists to gather data
- Development of communication strategies
State Of the Art
- In France an exercitation was done to calculate costs of outbreaks and of costs of vaccination and monitoring
Projects
What activities are planned or underway?
Protect wildlife from livestock diseases.
Planned Completion date 07/10/2022
Participating Country(s):
Netherlands
Impact of host age on viral and bacterial communities in a waterbird population.
Planned Completion date 01/11/2022
Participating Country(s):
Netherlands