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dc.contributor.authorRicci, A
dc.contributor.authorAllende, A
dc.contributor.authorBolton, D.
dc.contributor.authorChemaly, M
dc.contributor.authorDavies, R
dc.contributor.authorFernandez Escamez, PS
dc.contributor.authorGirones, R
dc.contributor.authorHerman, L
dc.contributor.authorKoutsoumanis, Kostas
dc.contributor.authorLindqvist, R
dc.contributor.authorNørrung, Birgit
dc.contributor.authorRobertson, Lucy
dc.contributor.authorSanaa, Moez
dc.contributor.authorSkandamis, Panagiotis
dc.contributor.authorSnary, Emma
dc.contributor.authorSpeybroeck, Niko
dc.contributor.authorTer Kuile, Benno
dc.contributor.authorThrelfall, john
dc.contributor.authorWahlström, Helene
dc.contributor.authorBenestad, Sylvie Lafond
dc.contributor.authorGavier-Widén, Dolores
dc.contributor.authorMiller, MW
dc.contributor.authorRu, Giuseppe
dc.contributor.authorTelling, GC
dc.contributor.authorTryland, Morten
dc.contributor.authorOrtiz Pelaez, A
dc.contributor.authorSimmons, Marion M
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-26T07:48:36Z
dc.date.available2017-09-26T07:48:36Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-18
dc.description.abstractIn April and May of 2016, Norway confirmed two cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild reindeer and a wild moose, respectively. In the light of this emerging issue, the European Commission requested EFSA to recommend surveillance activities and, if necessary, additional animal health risk-based measures to prevent the introduction of the disease and the spread into/within the EU, specifically Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Sweden, and considering seven wild, semidomesticated and farmed cervid species (Eurasian tundra reindeer, Finnish (Eurasian) forest reindeer, moose, roe deer, white-tailed deer, red deer and fallow deer). It was also asked to assess any new evidence on possible public health risks related to CWD. A 3-year surveillance system is proposed, differing for farmed and wild or semidomesticated cervids, with a two-stage sampling programme at the farm/geographically based population unit level (random sampling) and individual level (convenience sampling targeting high-risk animals). The current derogations of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1918 present a risk of introduction of CWD into the EU. Measures to prevent the spread of CWD within the EU are dependent upon the assumption that the disease is already present; this is currently unknown. The measures listed are intended to contain (limit the geographic extent of a focus) and/or to control (actively stabilise/reduce infection rates in an affected herd or population) the disease where it occurs. With regard to the zoonotic potential, the human species barrier for CWD prions does not appear to be absolute. These prions are present in the skeletal muscle and other edible tissues, so humans may consume infected material in enzootic areas. Epidemiological investigations carried out to date make no association between the occurrence of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans and exposure to CWD prions.en_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2017.4667> http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2017.4667 </a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationRicci A. [et. al.]: Scientific opinion on chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids. EFSA Journal. 2017;15(1)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1460752
dc.identifier.doi10.2903/j.efsa.2017.4667
dc.identifier.issn1831-4732
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/11534
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherEuropean Food Safety Authorityen_US
dc.relation.journalEFSA Journal
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Zoofysiologi og komparativ fysiologi: 483en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Zoophysiology and comparative physiology: 483en_US
dc.titleScientific opinion on chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervidsen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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