The virus responsible for the pandemic that has affected 152 countries worldwide is a new strain of coronavirus (CoV), which belongs to a family of viruses widespread in many animal species, including birds, and mammals including humans. Indeed, CoVs are known in veterinary medicine affecting several species, and causing respiratory and/or enteric, systemic diseases and reproductive disease in poultry. Animal diseases caused by CoV may be considered from the following different perspectives: livestock and poultry CoVs cause mainly “population disease”; while in companion animals they are a source of mainly “individual/single subject disease”. Therefore, respiratory CoV diseases in high-density, large populations of livestock or poultry may be a suitable example for the current SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic. In this review we describe some strategies applied in veterinary medicine to control CoV and discuss if they may help to develop practical and useful strategies to control the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic.
【저자키워드】 coronavirus, airborne, animals, biosecurity, air filtration, SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19, diffusion, 【초록키워드】 pandemic, virus, Population, humans, animal, CoV, disease, systemic disease, subject, help, new strain, high-density, widespread, country, responsible, affected, develop, caused, example, applied, affecting, reproductive, mammal, 【제목키워드】 experience, observation,