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Biosecurity

Biosecurity

Research Question

  • Effective and efficient biosecurity protocols

Research Gaps and Challenges

  • Cost-effective tools and strategies to improve in farm biosecurity
  • Contextualize and adapt standard biosecurity measures in local settings?
  • Education of small-holder farmers (e.g. training on better practices to
    be used)
  • Aging and variable poultry housing systems
  • Getting producer and worker engagement to do biosecurity everyday
  • Showing that there is value in everyday biosecurity

Solution Routes

  • Assess existing biosecurity measures: their efficiency, their cost-effectiveness, their gaps (what is still missed)
  • Separate biosecurity into easily understood parts – within farm hygiene/sanitation to reduce between animal spread VS outside the farm entry and exit practices to reduce infection of the farm or other farms
  • Optimise protocols to clean/disinfect premises in varied settings considering trade-off among safety and environmental/workers impact
  • Identify potential sources of virus entry or contamination per premises
  • Targeted measures to prevent introduction of influenza viruses
  • Biosecurity protocols around composting activities to avoid wildlife scavengers to disseminate virus-evaluate the risk of wildlife infection and spread
  • Sewage treatment protocols, impact on diseases control
  • Practical and effective DPI for workers
  • Tools for removal and killing virus in the ventilation systems
  • Tests for farm-workers (carrier state in humans)
  • Operational biosecurity competency evaluations
  • Effective disinfectants for wide use without adverse effects on human health
  • Quantitative measure of mitigating impacts of various biosecurity protocols
  • Economics of biosecurity- both in routine production to reduce incursions of endemic pathogens and during outbreaks to prevent
    spread and reduce duration of outbreak
  • Structural biosecurity that overcomes on farm operational biosecurity compliance failures
  • Using scaled-up approach to biosecurity implementation in smallholder farms
  • Alternative biosecurity protocols for low resource areas
  • Standardized questionnaires to be able to compare and analyze biosecurity measures
  • Modelling with biosecurity measures

Dependencies

  • Increased surveillance to avoid secondary outbreaks
  • Getting stakeholders buying in
  • Case studies to define cost-benefit of biosecurity in different settings

Projects

What activities are planned or underway?

Protect wildlife from livestock diseases.

Planned Completion date 07/10/2022

Participating Country(s):

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Impact of host age on viral and bacterial communities in a waterbird population.

Planned Completion date 01/11/2022

Participating Country(s):

NetherlandsIconNetherlands