Spotlight on avian pathology: can we reduce the pandemic threat of H9N2 avian influenza to human and avian health?
Avian Pathol
; 49(6): 529-531, 2020 Dec.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-726975
ABSTRACT
COVID-19 should be a "call to arms" for the poultry industry to reassess containment of the H9N2 subtype of low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses. Strains of this virus are a human pandemic threat and a severe economic burden on poultry production. Over the past 20 years they have spread throughout Asia, Africa, Middle East and parts of Europe. As a global industry, a critical need is to re-imagine production and marketing chains, especially in low and middle-income countries, where the structure of much of the industry facilitates virus transmission, especially, but not only, in improperly managed live poultry markets and related value chains. Better, appropriately matched vaccines are needed to support this process but such vaccines cannot, alone, overcome the existing defects in biosecurity, including high farm densities. None of this will occur unless the threat posed by this virus to global health security is recognized.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Coronavirus Infections
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Influenza, Human
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Influenza A Virus, H9N2 Subtype
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Betacoronavirus
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Influenza in Birds
Type of study:
Observational study
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Avian Pathol
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
03079457.2020.1796139
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