By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Risk Factor Week -- Fresh data on Animal Diseases and Conditions - Bluetongue are presented in a new report. According to news originating from Madrid, Spain, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “This work develops a methodology for estimating risk of wind-borne introduction of flying insects into a country, identifying areas and periods of high risk of vector-borne diseases incursion. This risk can be characterized by the role of suitable temperatures and wind currents in small insects’ survival and movements, respectively.”
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Complutense University, “The model predicts the number density of introduced insects over space and time based on three processes: the advection due to wind currents, the deposition on the ground and the survival due to climatic conditions. Spanish livestock has suffered many bluetongue outbreaks since 2004 and numerous experts point to Culicoides transported by wind from affected areas in North Africa as a possible cause. This work implements numerical experiments simulating the introduction of Culicoides in 2004. The model identified southern and eastern Spain, particularly between June and November, as being at greatest risk of wind-borne Culicoides introduction, which matches field data on bluetongue outbreaks in Spain this year.”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This validation suggests that this model may be useful for predicting introduction of airborne pathogens of significance to animal productivity.”
For more information on this research see: An advection-deposition-survival model to assess the risk of introduction of vector-borne diseases through the wind: Application to bluetongue outbreaks in Spain. Plos One , 2018;13(3):e0194573. (Public Library of Science - www.plos.org; Plos One - www.plosone.org)
The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from E. Fernandez-Carrion, VISAVET Center and Animal Health Department, Veterinary School, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Additional authors for this research include B. Ivorra, AM. Ramos, B. Martinez-Lopez, C. Aguilar-Vega and J.M Sanchez-Vizcaino.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194573. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-04-15), Data from Complutense University Provide New Insights into Bluetongue (An advection-deposition-survival model to assess the risk of introduction of vector-borne diseases through the wind: Application to bluetongue outbreaks in Spain), Disease Risk Factor Week, 7, ISSN: 1553-3379, BUTTER® ID: 015445681
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