Can Citizen Science Contribute to Avian Influenza Surveillance?

Global change is an important driver of the increase in emerging infectious diseases in recent decades. In parallel, interest in nature has increased, and different citizen science platforms have been developed to record wildlife observations from the general public. Some of these platforms also all...

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Autores: Saavedra-Garcés, Irene, Rabadán-González, Julio, Aragonés, David, Figuerola, Jordi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Avian influenza virus
Citizen science platforms
Outbreak surveillance
Early warning systems
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spelling Can Citizen Science Contribute to Avian Influenza Surveillance?Saavedra-Garcés, IreneRabadán-González, JulioAragonés, DavidFiguerola, JordiAvian influenza virusCitizen science platformsOutbreak surveillanceEarly warning systemsGlobal change is an important driver of the increase in emerging infectious diseases in recent decades. In parallel, interest in nature has increased, and different citizen science platforms have been developed to record wildlife observations from the general public. Some of these platforms also allow registering the observations of dead or sick birds. Here, we test the utility of live, sick and dead observations of birds recorded on the platform Observation.org for the early detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) outbreaks in the wild in Belgium and The Netherlands. There were no significant differences in the morbidity/mortality rate through Observation.org one to four weeks in advance. However, the results show that the HPAIV outbreaks officially reported by the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) overlapped in time with sudden increases in the records of sick and dead birds in the wild. In addition, in two of the five main HPAIV outbreaks recorded between 2016 and 2021, wild Anseriformes mortality increased one to two months before outbreak declaration. Although we cannot exclude that this increase was related to other causes such as other infectious diseases, we propose that Observation.org is a useful nature platform to complement animal health surveillance in wild birds. We propose possible approaches to improve the utility of the platform for pathogen surveillance in wildlife and discuss the potential for HPAIV outbreak detection systems based on citizen science to complement current surveillance programs of health authorities.This study was funded by MICINN through the European Regional Development Fund (SUMHAL, LIFEWATCH-2019-09-CSIC-4, POPE 2014-2020).Peer reviewedMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteEuropean CommissionConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)Rabadán-González, Julio [0000-0002-5047-5923]Aragonés, David [0000-0003-4989-9005]Figuerola, Jordi [0000-0002-4664-9011]Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]2023202320232023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/336472reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttps://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12091183Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3364722026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Can Citizen Science Contribute to Avian Influenza Surveillance?
title Can Citizen Science Contribute to Avian Influenza Surveillance?
spellingShingle Can Citizen Science Contribute to Avian Influenza Surveillance?
Saavedra-Garcés, Irene
Avian influenza virus
Citizen science platforms
Outbreak surveillance
Early warning systems
title_short Can Citizen Science Contribute to Avian Influenza Surveillance?
title_full Can Citizen Science Contribute to Avian Influenza Surveillance?
title_fullStr Can Citizen Science Contribute to Avian Influenza Surveillance?
title_full_unstemmed Can Citizen Science Contribute to Avian Influenza Surveillance?
title_sort Can Citizen Science Contribute to Avian Influenza Surveillance?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Saavedra-Garcés, Irene
Rabadán-González, Julio
Aragonés, David
Figuerola, Jordi
author Saavedra-Garcés, Irene
author_facet Saavedra-Garcés, Irene
Rabadán-González, Julio
Aragonés, David
Figuerola, Jordi
author_role author
author2 Rabadán-González, Julio
Aragonés, David
Figuerola, Jordi
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv European Commission
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
Rabadán-González, Julio [0000-0002-5047-5923]
Aragonés, David [0000-0003-4989-9005]
Figuerola, Jordi [0000-0002-4664-9011]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Avian influenza virus
Citizen science platforms
Outbreak surveillance
Early warning systems
topic Avian influenza virus
Citizen science platforms
Outbreak surveillance
Early warning systems
description Global change is an important driver of the increase in emerging infectious diseases in recent decades. In parallel, interest in nature has increased, and different citizen science platforms have been developed to record wildlife observations from the general public. Some of these platforms also allow registering the observations of dead or sick birds. Here, we test the utility of live, sick and dead observations of birds recorded on the platform Observation.org for the early detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) outbreaks in the wild in Belgium and The Netherlands. There were no significant differences in the morbidity/mortality rate through Observation.org one to four weeks in advance. However, the results show that the HPAIV outbreaks officially reported by the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) overlapped in time with sudden increases in the records of sick and dead birds in the wild. In addition, in two of the five main HPAIV outbreaks recorded between 2016 and 2021, wild Anseriformes mortality increased one to two months before outbreak declaration. Although we cannot exclude that this increase was related to other causes such as other infectious diseases, we propose that Observation.org is a useful nature platform to complement animal health surveillance in wild birds. We propose possible approaches to improve the utility of the platform for pathogen surveillance in wildlife and discuss the potential for HPAIV outbreak detection systems based on citizen science to complement current surveillance programs of health authorities.
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