id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-342052-v4y1xc90 Horigan, Verity Application of a quantitative entry assessment model to compare the relative risk of incursion of zoonotic bat-borne viruses into European Union Member States 2017-10-02 .txt text/plain 12804 611 55 The use of the same framework and generic data sources for all EU Member States (MS) allows for a relative comparison of the probability of virus introduction and of the importance of the routes of introduction among MSs. According to the model wEBOV posed the highest risk of an introduction event within the EU, followed by MARV and MERS-CoV. Since 2003 there have been a number of large-scale human outbreaks of bat-borne diseases e.g. Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Western Africa and Asia respectively, whilst a significant number of human cases of Nipah virus (NiV) are reported in Bangladesh every year (IEDCR, 2014) . To address this need, a generic quantitative risk assessment framework for the entry of bat-borne zoonotic viruses to the EU was developed (Simons et al., 2016) , considering the pathways: human travel, live animal movement, legal trade of food products and illegal trade of bushmeat. ./cache/cord-342052-v4y1xc90.txt ./txt/cord-342052-v4y1xc90.txt