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?
Dynamics of sustainability in integrated agriculture : aquaculture systems in the Mekong Delta
Planned Completion date 21/10/2024
Source Countries:
Netherlands
Impact of host age on viral and bacterial communities in a waterbird population.
Planned Completion date 01/11/2022
Source Countries:
Netherlands