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Pleased to share this new Tripartite publication on SARS-CoV-2 in animals used for fur farming: GLEWS+ Risk assessment

 

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Katinka

 

 

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SARS-CoV-2 in animals used for fur farming
GLEWS+ Risk assessment

 

 

Following the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in minks and humans in several countries, a joint FAO–OIE–WHO Global Early Warning System (GLEWS+) qualitative risk assessment on SARS-CoV-2 in animals farmed for fur was conducted.

 

Circulation of this virus in mink farms impacts livelihoods and public health, contributing to associated socio-economic disruption. In addition, the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in fur farms impacts animal health and welfare and poses a risk of spillover to native wildlife, which may affect species biodiversity or create new wildlife reservoirs for the virus.

 

The overall risk of introduction and spread of SARS-CoV-2 within fur farms, the spillover to humans in these farms and the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from fur farmed animals to susceptible wildlife populations was assessed at the regional level.

This assessment provides a series of recommendations for prevention and control measures on fur farms to increase biosecurity, reduce the likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 introduction and spread within fur farms, and mitigate the public health risk.

 

Keith Sumption

Director-OIC

Animal Production and Health Division, NSA

 

You can access the full version of the publication here

 

 

Katinka de Balogh

Senior Animal Health and Production Officer/One Health focal point

FAO Investment Centre

Europe, Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean Service (CFIC)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla

00153 Rome, ITALY

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