Coronaviruses roadmap:
Control Strategies
Roadmap for the development of disease control strategies for coronaviruses
Download 202410 Draft Coronavirus Disease control research roadmap FinalC
Humans
Humans
Research Question
- Mitigate potential spill-over from (and to) animals, including pets, wildlife, and livestock
Research Gaps and Challenges
- Predicting the next ‘jump’ of species
- Pets are a risk as well as wildlife and livestock
- Socio-economic challenges
- Environmental degradation, increased housing and disruption can lead to human disease
- Consideration of dual-use activities and intentional release which threatens safe research
- Methods to differentiate between intentional/deliberate and natural spill over
Solution Routes
- Quantify risk of animal product consumption for emergence of variants of public health concerns
- Identify high-risk interfaces between humans and wildlife
- Identifying changes in the virus in crossover to humans
Dependencies
- Cross-sector working across environment, health, housing, etc.
- Ensure laboratory biosecurity standards are maintained
- Trade of live animals of high-risk species should be avoided and/or highly controlled
State Of the Art
- SARS‐CoV, MERS‐CoV and SARS‐CoV‐2 had involved domestic or wildlife animal as reservoir or as intermediate host
Projects
What activities are planned or underway?
Intervention Strategies to Control Endemic and New Emerging and Re-Emerging Viral Diseases of Swine
Planned Completion date 04/10/2026
Source Countries:
United States
Pathogenesis of Swine Acute Diarrhea Syndrome Coronavirus
Planned Completion date 31/08/2026
Source Countries:
United States