Livestock trade networks for guiding animal health surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Trade in live animals can contribute to the introduction of exotic diseases, the maintenance and spread endemic diseases. Annually millions of animals are moved across Europe for the purposes of breeding, fattening and slaughter. Data on the number of animals moved were obtained from the Directorate General Sanco (DG Sanco) for 2011. These were converted to livestock units to enable direct comparison across species and their movements were mapped, used to calculate the indegrees and outdegrees of 27 European countries and the density and transitivity of movements within Europe. This provided the opportunity to discuss surveillance of European livestock movement taking into account stopping points en-route.

Results

High density and transitivity of movement for regi

SUBMITTER: Hardstaff JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4411738 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature