SURVIS: a fully-automated aerial baiting system for the distribution of vaccine baits for wildlife.
Large-scale oral vaccination of wildlife against rabies using aerial bait distribution has been successfully used to control terrestrial wildlife rabies in Europe and North America. A technical milestone to large-scale oral rabies vaccination campaigns in Europe was the development of fully-automated, computer-supported and cost-efficient technology for aerial distribution of baits like the SURVIS -system. Each bait released is recorded by the control unit through a sensor, with the exact location, time and date of release and subsequently the collected data can be evaluated, e.g. in GIS programmes. Thus, bait delivery systems like SURVIS are an important management tool for flight services and the responsible authorities for the optimization and evaluation of oral vaccination campaigns of wildlife against rabies or the control of other relevant wildlife diseases targeted by oral baits.
Institute of Epidemiology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Wusterhausen, Germany. thomas.mueller@fli.bund.de
Thomas
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Müller
Conrad M
CM
Freuling
Peter
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Gschwendner
Ernst
E
Holzhofer
Heinz
H
Mürke
Heiko
H
Rüdiger
Peter
P
Schuster
Detlef
D
Klöss
Christoph
C
Staubach
Kathrin
K
Teske
Adriaan
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Vos
D000284:Administration, Oral; D000401:Aircraft; D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001331:Automation; D003201:Computers; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D011818:Rabies / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011819:Rabies Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D014611:Vaccination / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*
D011819:Rabies Vaccines