Risk based culling for highly infectious diseases of livestock

The control of highly infectious diseases of livestock such as classical swine fever, foot-and-mouth disease, and avian influenza is fraught with ethical, economic, and public health dilemmas. Attempts to control outbreaks of these pathogens rely on massive culling of infected farms, and farms deeme...

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Main Authors: te Beest, Dennis E, Hagenaars, Thomas J, Stegeman, J Arjan, Koopmans, Marion PG, van Boven, Michiel
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3160900/