Influenza roadmap:
Control Strategies
Roadmap for the development of disease control strategies for influenza
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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?
Impact of host age on viral and bacterial communities in a waterbird population.
Planned Completion date 01/11/2022
Source Countries:
Netherlands
Association of biosecurity and hygiene practices with avian influenza A/H5 and A/H9 virus infections in turkey farms.
Planned Completion date 14/03/2024
Source Countries:
Netherlands