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Coronaviruses roadmap:
Control Strategies

Roadmap for the development of disease control strategies for coronaviruses

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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