Vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease: do initial conditions affect its benefit?

ABSTRACT: When facing incursion of a major livestock infectious disease, the decision to implement a vaccination programme is made at the national level. To make this decision, governments must consider whether the benefits of vaccination are sufficient to outweigh potential additional costs, including further trade restrictions that may be imposed due to the implementation of vaccination. However, little consensus exists on the factors triggering its implementation on the field. This work explores the effect of several triggers in the implementation of a reactive vaccination-to-live policy when facing epidemics of foot-and-mouth disease. In particular, we tested whether changes in the location of the incursion and the delay of implementation would affect the epidemiological benefit of such a policy

SUBMITTER: Porphyre T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3815046 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature