‘Risk-based bird flu mitigation’

Preventing avian influenza outbreaks starts with good situational awareness. That is why Utrecht University is plotting all the risk indicators together in a risk model. After completing a digital risk map for the Netherlands, they are now working on a European version. In the summer of 2021, Dr Janneke Schreuder, veterinarian and epidemiologist at Utrecht University, obtained her doctorate on a broader approach to preventing bird flu. “This project is part of our general research theme her