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Socio-biological consequences of border-related ASF mitigation strategies in Poland (2022)

Art

Vortrag

Autor

Jarynowski, Andrzej (WE 16)

Kongress

More-than-human borderlands and mobilities in Central and Eastern Europe

Leipzig, 01. – 02.12.2022

Quelle

Sprache

Englisch

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URL (Volltext): https://leibniz-ifl.de/en/institute-1/news/dates-and-events/details/more-than-human-borderlands-and-mobilities-in-central-and-eastern-europe

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Institut für Veterinär-Epidemiologie und Biometrie

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

Abstract / Zusammenfassung

In infection control barriers are used as they can reduce potentially infectious contacts and are regularly applied to disconnect movement of animals. However, the effect on wildlife conservation and land use is complicated. African swine fever (ASF) is not only the biggest world’s current threat to veterinary public health, but also could be important trigger of social tensions of both animal breeders and wildlife conservation associations The great socio-economic impact of ASF burden due to both the pig farming and the wild boar-habitat epidemiological cycles with humans as a vector needs better understanding. Such challenges can only be adequately faced by an interdisciplinary approach, where methods of modern biological, computational and digital

epidemiology are complemented by so-called veterinary anthropology. We analyse socio-biological implications of fences (on Polish and Russian/Belarussian as well as Polish and German

border) as well as disconnecting animal corridors in the Polish interior in the context of ASF control using 1) experience from outbreak investigations and spatiotemporal patterns of disease notifications; 2) epizootiological models verifying effectiveness of fencing and blocking corridors; 3) online social and traditional media data to investigate the behavioural and affective dynamics of animal breeders, ecologists, hunters, veterinarians, public administration as well as general population.
The results of our simulations suggest that blocking animal corridors in the interior is a more effective control strategy than fencing national borders (at least in a few years' perspective). We found differences in the media discourse on ASF control strategies depending on the type of agency (ecological vs farming oriented). Moreover, we discuss the implications of COVID-19 pandemic on cross-border cooperation on ASF control, particularly how it could speed up virus propagation.