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A systemic approach to assess the potential and risks of wildlife culling for infectious disease control
- Abstract:
- The maintenance of infectious diseases requires a sufficient number of susceptible hosts. Host culling is a potential control strategy for animal diseases. However, the reduction in biodiversity and increasing public concerns regarding the involved ethical issues have progressively challenged the use of wildlife culling. Here, we assess the potential of wildlife culling as an epidemiologically sound management tool, by examining the host ecology, pathogen characteristics, eco-sociological contexts, and field work constraints. We also discuss alternative solutions and make recommendations for the appropriate implementation of culling for disease control.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1038/s42003-020-1032-z
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- Publisher:
- Nature Research
- Journal:
- Communications Biology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 3
- Article number:
- 353
- Publication date:
- 2020-07-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-04-15
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- EISSN:
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2399-3642
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1100854
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pubs:1100854
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2020-04-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Miguel et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © The Authors 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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