Resources

Mapping of Areas at High Risk of Zoonotic Pathogen Transmission and Disease Monitoring at the Human-Wildlife Interface in the District des Montagnes in Côte d’Ivoire

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, describes the use of ArcGIS software to develop maps documenting the dynamics of ecosystem components at human-wildlife interaction zones with the potential for spillover of zoonotic pathogens.

Joint Risk Assessment of Ebola and Lassa Viruses at the Human-Wildlife Interface in the Tonkpi Region District des Montagnes

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, summarizes a workshop that focused on assessing the risk for Ebola and Lassa virus infections in the Tonkpi Region of Côte d'Ivoire.

Introduction of New Tools and Support for Biosafety Practices among Wild Meat Handlers and Processors in Côte d’Ivoire to Prevent Zoonotic Disease Risks

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, describes the STOP Spillover Côte d'Ivoire Country Team's development of  guidelines and protocols for wild meat handling and processing, training in wild meat handling and processing for market and restaurant workers, and distribution of biosafety equipment.

Impact Brief: A Community Dialogue Process to Co-Design Bat Spillover Risk Reduction Interventions

This brief describes community dialogues in Kampot and Battambang provinces that were facilitated by the STOP Spillover Cambodia Country Team. The dialogues aimed to involve key stakeholders, especially those involved in bat guano handling, in understanding baseline risks and practices and co-designing effective interventions.

Impact Brief: App-Based Early Event Detection System for Live Bird Markets

This brief describes an app-based early warning system that enables live bird market workers, cleaners, market committee members, and consumers to report poultry and/or crow mortality and poultry workers' flu-like illnesses using their mobile phones.

Impact Brief: Avian Influenza Virus Risk Reduction Initiatives in Bangladesh: STOP Spillover Workshop Highlights

This brief summarizes a workshop that brought together stakeholders to discuss STOP Spillover activities in Bangladesh, in particular the implementation and evaluation of biosecure single-shop live bird market (LBM) designs, enhancing data and information-sharing platforms, and the development and implementation of an app-based early event detection system for LBMs.

Impact Brief: Community Dialogue and Demonstration-based Education on Zoonotic Diseases and Spillover Risk Reduction in Kang Meas District, Kampong Cham Province

This brief describes a dialogue with community stakeholders to demonstrate safety practices to reduce risks from bat-human contact and to identify and prioritize actions that participants were willing to take to mitigate the risk of viral spillover from bats to humans.

Impact Brief: Creating Sentinel Surveillance Sites in Bat Guano Communities at Risk for Zoonotic Spillover

This brief describes the STOP Spillover Cambodia Country Team's work at sentinel sites in bat-guano-producing communities in Kampong Cham province to assess patient prevalence of severe acute respiratory illness, influenza-like illness, and health-seeking behaviors, and to catalog the types of animals kept near homes.

Impact Brief: Enhancing Coordinated Data Sharing and Information Sharing Platforms

This brief describes the STOP Spillover Bangladesh Country Team's work on an integrated data sharing platform for surveillance and early detection activities and a coordinated information sharing platform for co-design, co-implementation, and co-monitoring of surveillance and intervention activities.

Impact Brief: Final Round of Bat Guano and Urine Sampling to Detect Coronaviruses in Bat Guano Farming Communities in Kang Meas District, Kampong Cham Province

This brief describes the fourth seasonally distributed round of bat guano and urine sampling to identify bat pathogens present at bat guano farms, evaluate the frequency and seasonality of coronavirus shedding by bats at bat guano farms, and provide scientific evidence to inform the design of interventions to reduce the risk of exposure to bat-associated pathogens.

Impact Brief: First-Round Surveillance Findings at the Bat-Human Interface in Kang Meas District, Kampong Cham Province

This brief summaries the first round of participatory syndromic and active surveillance undertaken at the bat-human interface employing a combined approach of participatory case finding using symptom-based case definitions and active monitoring to identify individuals with signs suggestive of viral infections (especially respiratory illnesses linked to coronaviruses) and exposure to guano farming.

Impact Brief: Implementation of Improved Biosafety and Hygiene Practices in Bat Guano Farming Communities in Kang Meas District, Kampong Cham Province

This brief summarizes household monitoring of biosafety and hygiene practices in some households that harvest bat guano and others that do not, as well as community dialogues and demonstration-based education events focused on reinforcing the adoption of biosafety and hygiene practices.

Impact Brief: Intervention to Improve Biosecurity at Live Bird Markets

This brief describes the STOP Spillover Bangladesh County Team's collaboration with national and local stakeholders to develop a holistic intervention to improve the biosecurity and biosafety of live bird markets.

Impact Brief: Strengthening Capacity of Sentinel Surveillance Team: Operationalizing Participatory Epidemiology for One Health Syndromic Surveillance

This brief summarizes a participatory surveillance refresher training to improve the capacity of a sentinel surveillance team to detect key syndromes suspected to be viral-associated and to investigate cases related to respiratory diseases, including coronaviruses.

Impact Brief: Syndromic and Active Surveillance at Bat-Human Interface in Kang Meas District, Kampong Cham Province

This brief describes symptom-based screening and active monitoring that focused on the bat-human interface in communities with bat guano farms in the Kang Meas District of Kampong Cham province, Cambodia. The initiative aimed to identify individuals with signs suggesting a possible viral infection, particularly those related to respiratory illness, including coronaviruses.

Impact Brief: Tracking the Progress of the Implementation of Improved Biosafety and Hygiene Practices in Bat Guano Farming Communities in Kang Meas District, Kampong Cham Province

This brief describes a three-day monitoring and technical support effort in the bat guano producing communities in Kang Meas District in Kampong Cham province. The purpose of the activity was to provide support to reinforce the adoption of biosafety and hygiene practices, and identify challenges and barriers to adopting and sustaining improved practices.

Impact Brief: Working with Local Stakeholders to Identify and Select Bat Caves for Intervention in Battambang Province

This brief describes a field visit by the STOP Spillover Cambodia Country Team to Battambang province to collect information for site selection in communities where bat guano is harvested from caves.

Impact Brief: Implementing TIP 2: A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Waste Management

This brief describes implementation of a TIP (Trial of Improved Practices) related to improving waste management, handling, and processing in wildlife farms in Viet Nam. Following a training, 13 civet-farming households and one bamboo rat-farming household began to practice manure treatment using composting trays with fermented probiotics.

Impact Brief: Behavioral Risk Assessment Along Wildlife Value Chains in Dong Nai Province, Viet Nam

This brief summarizes a social behavior risk study that examined the risks associated with the wildlife farming value chain in Dong Nai province Viet Nam to identify knowledge gaps and prioritize risk reduction interventions.

Impact Brief: Collaborative Rodent Tracking: Engaging Community Health Structures and Residents to Combat Lassa Fever

This brief describes rodent monitoring that occurred in homes in six communities in Liberia. The data will improve understanding of the presence of rats and their access to domestic and public water and food storage in selected communities.