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African Swine Fever Outbreak Investigations—The Significance of Disease-Related Anecdotal Information Coming from Laypersons
Veterinarians who have conducted numerous investigations of African swine fever outbreaks in pig farms in various European countries over the years shared their experiences during a workshop in Germany in early 2020. One focus was on the so-called “anecdotal information” obtained from farmers, farm...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9229628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35745556 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11060702 |
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author | Lamberga, Kristīne Ardelean, Felix Blome, Sandra Busauskas, Paulius Djuric, Boban Globig, Anja Guberti, Vittorio Miteva, Aleksandra Oļševskis, Edvins Seržants, Mārtiņš Viltrop, Arvo Zani, Laura Zdravkova, Anna Depner, Klaus |
author_facet | Lamberga, Kristīne Ardelean, Felix Blome, Sandra Busauskas, Paulius Djuric, Boban Globig, Anja Guberti, Vittorio Miteva, Aleksandra Oļševskis, Edvins Seržants, Mārtiņš Viltrop, Arvo Zani, Laura Zdravkova, Anna Depner, Klaus |
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description | Veterinarians who have conducted numerous investigations of African swine fever outbreaks in pig farms in various European countries over the years shared their experiences during a workshop in Germany in early 2020. One focus was on the so-called “anecdotal information” obtained from farmers, farm workers or other lay people during the outbreak investigations. Discussions revolved around how to correctly interpret and classify such information and how the subjective character of the statements can influence follow-up examinations. The statements of the lay persons were grouped into three categories according to their plausibility: (i) statements that were plausible and prompted further investigation, (ii) statements that were not plausible and could therefore be ignored, and (iii) statements that were rather implausible but should not be ignored completely. The easiest to deal with were statements that could be classified without doubt as important and very plausible and statements that were not plausible at all. Particularly difficult to assess were statements that had a certain plausibility and could not be immediately dismissed out of hand. We aim to show that during outbreak investigations, one is confronted with human subjective stories that are difficult to interpret but still important to understand the overall picture. Here, we present and briefly discuss an arbitrary selection of reports made by lay persons during outbreak investigations. |
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spelling | pubmed-92296282022-06-25 African Swine Fever Outbreak Investigations—The Significance of Disease-Related Anecdotal Information Coming from Laypersons Lamberga, Kristīne Ardelean, Felix Blome, Sandra Busauskas, Paulius Djuric, Boban Globig, Anja Guberti, Vittorio Miteva, Aleksandra Oļševskis, Edvins Seržants, Mārtiņš Viltrop, Arvo Zani, Laura Zdravkova, Anna Depner, Klaus Pathogens Communication Veterinarians who have conducted numerous investigations of African swine fever outbreaks in pig farms in various European countries over the years shared their experiences during a workshop in Germany in early 2020. One focus was on the so-called “anecdotal information” obtained from farmers, farm workers or other lay people during the outbreak investigations. Discussions revolved around how to correctly interpret and classify such information and how the subjective character of the statements can influence follow-up examinations. The statements of the lay persons were grouped into three categories according to their plausibility: (i) statements that were plausible and prompted further investigation, (ii) statements that were not plausible and could therefore be ignored, and (iii) statements that were rather implausible but should not be ignored completely. The easiest to deal with were statements that could be classified without doubt as important and very plausible and statements that were not plausible at all. Particularly difficult to assess were statements that had a certain plausibility and could not be immediately dismissed out of hand. We aim to show that during outbreak investigations, one is confronted with human subjective stories that are difficult to interpret but still important to understand the overall picture. Here, we present and briefly discuss an arbitrary selection of reports made by lay persons during outbreak investigations. MDPI 2022-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9229628/ /pubmed/35745556 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11060702 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Lamberga, Kristīne Ardelean, Felix Blome, Sandra Busauskas, Paulius Djuric, Boban Globig, Anja Guberti, Vittorio Miteva, Aleksandra Oļševskis, Edvins Seržants, Mārtiņš Viltrop, Arvo Zani, Laura Zdravkova, Anna Depner, Klaus African Swine Fever Outbreak Investigations—The Significance of Disease-Related Anecdotal Information Coming from Laypersons |
title | African Swine Fever Outbreak Investigations—The Significance of Disease-Related Anecdotal Information Coming from Laypersons |
title_full | African Swine Fever Outbreak Investigations—The Significance of Disease-Related Anecdotal Information Coming from Laypersons |
title_fullStr | African Swine Fever Outbreak Investigations—The Significance of Disease-Related Anecdotal Information Coming from Laypersons |
title_full_unstemmed | African Swine Fever Outbreak Investigations—The Significance of Disease-Related Anecdotal Information Coming from Laypersons |
title_short | African Swine Fever Outbreak Investigations—The Significance of Disease-Related Anecdotal Information Coming from Laypersons |
title_sort | african swine fever outbreak investigations—the significance of disease-related anecdotal information coming from laypersons |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9229628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35745556 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11060702 |
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