Advice of the Scientific Committee of the Belgian Food Safety Agency on risk factors of (potentially) (re)-emerging infectious animal diseases

The objective of this advice is to identify the risk factors of emergence of infectious animal diseases in Belgium to allow the risk managers to undertake control measures in time. For that purpose, 34 examples of (re)-emerging or at risk of (re)-emergence infectious animal diseases and 33 risk (or protection) factors of emergence were selected aiming for the most complete representativeness as possible. The effect of these factors on the risk of emergence of the 34 animal diseases was analysed via a Delphi survey by 50 experts. The study allowed to rank the risk factors according to their rel... Mehr ...