Manifiesto: Desafíos del siglo XXI en prevención, bienestar y salud animal
José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno participa en este manifiesto, en el que se recogen los grandes desafíos del siglo XXI en prevención, bienestar y salud animal, resaltando su importancia para garantizar la salud global.
La obra impulsada por Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health ha sido elaborada por un grupo de expertos de referencia en España y pretende fomentar el debate en torno al concepto One Health.
Enlace al Manifiesto en Boehringer Ingelheim
Global emergence and evolutionary dynamics of bluetongue virus
Artículo de investigación publicado en la revista Scientific Reports
Resumen: Bluetongue virus (BTV) epidemics are responsible for worldwide economic losses of up to US$ 3 billion. Understanding the global evolutionary epidemiology of BTV is critical in designing intervention programs. Here we employed phylodynamic models to quantify the evolutionary characteristics, spatiotemporal origins, and multi-host transmission dynamics of BTV across the globe. We inferred that goats are the ancestral hosts for BTV but are less likely to be important for cross-species transmission, sheep and cattle continue to be important for the transmission and maintenance of infection between other species. Our models pointed to China and India, countries with the highest population of goats, as the likely ancestral country for BTV emergence and dispersal worldwide over 1000 years ago. However, the increased diversification and dispersal of BTV coincided with the initiation of transcontinental livestock trade after the 1850s. Our analysis uncovered important epidemiological aspects of BTV that may guide future molecular surveillance of BTV.
Moh A Alkhamis, Cecilia Aguilar-Vega, Nicholas M Fountain-Jones, Kai Lin, Andres M Perez, José M Sánchez-Vizcaíno
Artículo de acceso abierto2020: un año de pandemias
Conferencia titulada "2020: un año de pandemias" a cargo José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno Rodríguez, Catedrático de Sanidad Animal de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y Dr. Honoris Causa por la Universidad de Murcia.
La conferencia se desarrollará de manera virtual el próximo 1 de diciembre a las 18:30:
Computer Vision Applied to Detect Lethargy through Animal Motion Monitoring: A Trial on African Swine Fever in Wild Boar
Nuevo artículo de investigación publicado en la revista Animals del grupo MDPI.
Early detection of infectious diseases is the most cost-effective strategy in disease surveillance for reducing the risk of outbreaks. Latest deep learning and computer vision improvements are powerful tools that potentially open up a new field of research in epidemiology and disease control. These techniques were used here to develop an algorithm aimed to track and compute animal motion in real time. This algorithm was used in experimental trials in order to assess African swine fever (ASF) infection course in Eurasian wild boar. Overall, the outcomes showed negative correlation between motion reduction and fever caused by ASF infection. In addition, infected animals computed significant lower movements compared to uninfected animals. The obtained results suggest that a motion monitoring system based on artificial vision may be used in indoors to trigger suspicions of fever. It would help farmers and animal health services to detect early clinical signs compatible with infectious diseases. This technology shows a promising non-intrusive, economic and real time solution in the livestock industry with especial interest in ASF, considering the current concern in the world pig industry.
Fernández-Carrión E., Barasona JA., Sánchez A., Jurado C., Cadenas-Fernández E., Sánchez-Vizcaíno JM.
Artículo de Opinión por el Prof. José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno “La Pepa sigue de Gira”
El objetivo es mantener la PEPA fuera de España.
La edición virtual de la feria SEPOR arranca dando respuesta a los retos en sanidad animal y salud pública
Se han expuesto las medidas adoptadas contra la covid en el porcino (26/10/2020)
El rector Joaquín Goyache ha realizado un análisis de las enfermedades emergentes y sus efectos en la sociedad y economía. En su intervención el profesor José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno ha presentado los últimos avances en el desarrollo de la vacuna de la PPA.