Publikationsdatenbank

Perception of zoonotic (COVID-19) and epizootic (African swine fever) infectious diseases on the Polish Internet (2021)

Art

Poster

Autoren

Jarynowski, Andrzej (WE 16)

Semenov, Alexander

Belik, Vitaly (WE 16)

Kongress

Zoonoses 2021

online, 13. – 15.10.2021

Quelle

Zoonoses 2021 - International Symposium on Zoonoses Research : joint meeting of the German Research Platform for Zoonoses and the Research Network Zoonotic Diseases : program and abstracts — Forschungsnetz zoonotische Infektionskrankheiten, German Research Platform for Zoonoses (Hrsg.)

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Sprache

Englisch

Verweise

URL (Volltext): https://evis.events/event/170/attachments/90/194/Zoonoses%202021%20-%20BoA_13.10.2021-2.pdf

Kontakt

Institut für Veterinär-Epidemiologie und Biometrie

Königsweg 67
14163 Berlin
+49 30 838 56034
epi@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Abstract / Zusammenfassung

Backround:
The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the socio-economic agenda of the last year almost everywhere around the world. The spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus inducing a zoonotic disease affecting both humans and animals has made infectious diseases a dominant topic of interest in the Internet to most of the public. At the same time, non-human epizootic diseases such as African Swine Fever (ASF) are continuing to spread, covering more and more areas, severely affecting the economics of animal production and remaining hardly perceived by the public.

Aims and Methods:
In the present study we quantitatively and qualitatively analyze digital footprints of COVID-19 and ASF on the Polish Internet, in particular, using Google, Twitter, YouTube, and traditional media data from 15.01.2020 to 30.04.2021.

Results and conclusion:
We demonstrate how the perception of infectious diseases differs dependent on host type: human hosts (the highest interest among the general population), and animal host (average interest with some peaks during local events as SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks among Minks) and only
animal host (interest only in engaged group) agents on the Internet. Interest in infectious diseases affecting humans is few orders of magnitude higher (in both traditional and social media) than in diseases affecting animals and livestock economy.