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    Understanding Framings and Perceptions of Spillover: Preventing Future Outbreaks of Bat-Borne Zoonoses?

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    2017-04-19
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    Tweneboah Lawson, Elaine
    Ohemeng, Fidelia
    Ayivor, Jesse
    Leach, Melissa
    Waldman, Linda
    Ntiamoa-Baidu, Yaa
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    Bats provide many ecosystem services and have intrinsic value. They also act as host reservoirs for some viruses. Several studies have linked zoonotic diseases to bats, raising questions about the risks bats pose, especially to people living close to bat roosts. Through a series of case studies undertaken in three communities, the purpose of this paper is to explore the various ways in which framings and perceptions of bats can influence a potential spillover of bat-borne viruses to humans in Ghana. It assesses the social, cultural and economic factors that drive human-bat interactions and posits that understanding the socio-economic contexts in which human-bat interactions occur is key to the success of future communication strategies.
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    https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/13697
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    Elaine Tweneboah Lawson, Fidelia Ohemeng, Jesse Ayivor, Melissa Leach, Linda Waldman, Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu, (2017) "Understanding framings and perceptions of spillover: Preventing future outbreaks of bat-borne zoonoses", Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Vol. 26 Issue: 4, pp.396-411
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    10.1108/DPM-04-2016-0082
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    Disaster Prevention and Management;26.4
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    https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/DPM-04-2016-0082
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