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Assessing the Risks of SARS-CoV-2 in Wildlife
- Source :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, One Health Outlook, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2021), One Health Outlook
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Preprints, 2020.
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Abstract
- Versión 2 disponible en: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/225811<br />Versión editorial disponible en: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/238998<br />The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 likely emerged from a wildlife source with transmission to humans followed by rapid geographic spread throughout the globe and severe impacts on both human health and the global economy. Since the onset of the pandemic, there have been many instances of human-to-animal transmission involving companion, farmed and zoo animals, and limited evidence for spread into free-living wildlife. The establishment of reservoirs of infection in wild animals would create significant challenges to infection control in humans and could pose a threat to the welfare and conservation status of wildlife. We discuss the potential for exposure, onward transmission and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in an initial selection of wild mammals (bats, canids, felids, mustelids, great apes, rodents and cervids). Dynamic risk assessment and targeted surveillance are important tools for the early detection of infection in wildlife, and here we describe a framework for collating and synthesising emerging information to inform targeted surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in wildlife. Surveillance efforts should be integrated with information from public and veterinary health initiatives to provide insights into the potential role of wild mammals in the epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
030106 microbiology
Wildlife
Review
03 medical and health sciences
Cambio de huésped
Environmental health
Vigilancia
Pandemic
medicine
anatomy_morphology
Infection control
Evaluación del riesgo
lcsh:Environmental sciences
Risk assessment
lcsh:GE1-350
Reservorios
Surveillance
Transmission (medicine)
SARS-CoV-2
Public health
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
COVID-19
lcsh:RA1-1270
animal_sciences_zoology
030104 developmental biology
Geography
Reservoirs
Vida silvestre
Host-switching
Conservation status
wildlife
Covid-19
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, One Health Outlook, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2021), One Health Outlook
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5a8d03a5b55fbc7ccafb706ddb568863