Surveillance to improve evidence for community control decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic - Opening the animal epidemic toolbox for Public Health

Alessandro Foddai; Ann Lindberg; Juan Lubroth; Johanne Ellis-Iversen

doi:10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100130

Surveillance to improve evidence for community control decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic - Opening the animal epidemic toolbox for Public Health

One Health. 2020 Mar 27:9:100130. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100130. eCollection 2020 Jun.

Authors

Alessandro Foddai¹, Ann Lindberg², Juan Lubroth³, Johanne Ellis-Iversen¹

Affiliations

¹ National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
² National Veterinary Institute, SE-751 89 Uppsala, Sweden.
³ One Health Consultancies, Casaprota, Italy.

Abstract

During the first few months of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic reached Europe and spread around the world. Health systems all over the world are trying to control the outbreak in the shortest possible time. Exotic disease outbreaks are not uncommon in animal health and randomised surveillance is frequently used as support for decision-making. This editorial discusses the possibilities of practicing One Health, by using methods from animal health to enhance surveillance for COVID-19 to provide an evidence base fort decision-making in communities and countries.

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Decision-making; Disease surveillance; Pandemic.

Publication types

Editorial