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COVID-19 is likely to impact animal health
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Gortázar C
; de la Fuente J
Prev Vet Med
2020[Jul]; 180
(ä): 105030
PMID32447153
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Responses to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have included travel bans and social
distancing with "shelter in place" orders, resulting in sudden changes in human
activity and subsequent effects on the global and national economy. We speculate
that animal health will likely be impacted by COVID-19 through the immediate
consequences of sudden human confinement and inactivity, and through the
long-term consequences of the upcoming economic crisis on farmer livelihoods and
veterinary service capacities. We expect the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent
economic crisis to impact negatively on the control of diseases that are already
present in Europe, as well as on the European capacity to prevent and respond in
a timely manner to new and emerging animal diseases. We also expect an increased
attention to the animal health implications of coronavirus infections in animals.
Mechanisms explaining these outcomes include increased wildlife-livestock
contacts due to human confinement; disruption of ongoing testing schemes for
endemic diseases; lower disease surveillance efforts; and lower capacity for
managing populations of relevant wildlife reservoirs. The main mitigation action
consists in adapting animal health management strategies to the available
resources.
|Activities of Daily Living
[MESH]
|Agriculture/economics
[MESH]
|Animal Diseases/*epidemiology/prevention & control
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