On 7 May 2009, the WHO stated that containment was not feasible and that countries should focus on mitigating the effect of the virus.
Conventional control strategies, such as cultural methods and biocide applications against arthropod, nematode, and plasmodiophorid vectors, have limited success at mitigating the impact of plant viruses.
Possession of such antiviral testing platforms by public health agencies should accelerate the testing of antiviral drugs against emerging or recently emerged viruses mitigating the effects of their disease and transmission.
Mitigating the impact of these viruses includes scrupulous personal hygiene to avoid person-to-person spread, and protecting shellfish beds against human sewage contamination to reduce food-related norovirus infection.
In the early phase of the pandemic, HK implemented aggressive strategies to attempt to contain and later on to mitigate the spread the virus.
The best defense is clearly widespread study of the virus in the hopes of mitigating the consequences of an outbreak among humans.
Non-reversion mutations are likely of two classes: (1) neutral mutations fixed by chance and (2) compensatory mutations mitigating the negative effects of mutations in N. tabacum, fixed during virus replication in other hosts, and responsible for antagonistic pleiotropy.
Inexpensive, point of care diagnosis capable of detecting the virus rapidly would be very useful to mitigate the effects of the virus and possibly arrest its spread.
It was also thought that as difficult as it was to stop the spread of the virus, there was a good chance of slowing down transmission rate and mitigating the consequences.
Mitigating the impact of malicious code upon the enterprise requires more than just anti-virus (AV) software.
