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German Federal Institute of Risk Assessment

The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) is a federal agency within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The central task of BfR is the scientific risk assessment and its communication of food, feed, substances, and products as the basis for the consumer protection activities of the federal government. The BfR also performs the role of the German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R) and coordinates activities with the goal of reducing animal experiments to the necessary minimum and providing the best possible protection for laboratory animals.

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As the pandemic winds down, continual surveillance of wild animals is vital to ensure that it doesn’t switch to another sphere of life. Kamil Martinovsky/ shutterstock

COVID infection of three lions and a puma in private South African zoo points to need for wider surveillance

Adriano Mendes, University of Pretoria; Amy Strydom, German Federal Institute of Risk Assessment; Katja Koeppel, University of Pretoria, and Marietjie Venter, University of Pretoria

A growing body of research shows that COVID-19 protocols should be extended to areas in which there is a human-animal interface such as zoos, wildlife sanctuaries and game farms.

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