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Effects of culling vampire bats on the spatial spread and spillover of rabies virus

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dc.contributor.author Viana, Mafalda
dc.contributor.author Benavides, Julio A.
dc.contributor.author Broos, Alice
dc.contributor.author Ibañez Loayza, Darcy
dc.contributor.author Niño, Ruby
dc.contributor.author Bone, Jordan
dc.contributor.author da Silva Filipe, Ana
dc.contributor.author Orton, Richard
dc.contributor.author Valderrama Bazán, William David
dc.contributor.author Matthiopoulos, Jason
dc.contributor.author Streicker, Daniel G.
dc.coverage.spatial Apurímac, Perú
dc.coverage.spatial Ayacucho, Perú
dc.coverage.spatial Cusco, Perú
dc.date.accessioned 2023-04-16T04:38:13Z
dc.date.available 2023-04-16T04:38:13Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/13367
dc.description.abstract Controlling pathogen circulation in wildlife reservoirs is notoriously challenging. In Latin America, vampire bats have been culled for decades in hopes of mitigating lethal rabies infections in humans and livestock. Whether culls reduce or exacerbate rabies transmission remains controversial. Using Bayesian state-space models, we show that a 2-year, spatially extensive bat cull in an area of exceptional rabies incidence in Peru failed to reduce spillover to livestock, despite reducing bat population density. Viral whole genome sequencing and phylogeographic analyses further demonstrated that culling before virus arrival slowed viral spatial spread, but reactive culling accelerated spread, suggesting that culling-induced changes in bat dispersal promoted viral invasions. Our findings question the core assumptions of density-dependent transmission and localized viral maintenance that underlie culling bats as a rabies prevention strategy and provide an epidemiological and evolutionary framework to understand the outcomes of interventions in complex wildlife disease systems. Copyright © 2023 The Authors. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher American Association for the Advancement of Science
dc.relation.ispartofseries Science Advances
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject vampire bats en_US
dc.subject spatial spread en_US
dc.subject rabies en_US
dc.subject virus en_US
dc.title Effects of culling vampire bats on the spatial spread and spillover of rabies virus en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add7437
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.08
dc.relation.issn 2375-2548


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