Publications by authors named "Fabienne Fecher-Bourgeois"
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- This study evaluates the potential economic consequences of a West Nile Virus (WNV) epidemic in Belgium, focusing on both equine and human health sectors using 2012 data.
- The research identifies risk areas based on suitable habitats for the virus's main vector, Culex pipiens, and estimates the morbidity for horses and humans based on past European epidemics.
- Costs associated with vaccinations and replacements in horses could exceed EUR 30 million nationwide, while human health impacts would involve significant hospital expenses, particularly for severe forms of the disease, without a current vaccine available for humans.
To prioritize 100 animal diseases and zoonoses in Europe, we used a multicriteria decision-making procedure based on opinions of experts and evidence-based data. Forty international experts performed intracategory and intercategory weighting of 57 prioritization criteria. Two methods (deterministic with mean of each weight and probabilistic with distribution functions of weights by using Monte Carlo simulation) were used to calculate a score for each disease.
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