Multilevel model for airborne transmission of foot-and-mouth disease applied to Swedish livestock.

ABSTRACT: The foot-and-mouth disease is an ever-present hazard to the livestock industry due to the huge economic consequences following an outbreak that necessitates culling of possibly infected animals in vast numbers. The disease is highly contagious and previous epizootics have shown that it spreads by many routes. One such route is airborne transmission, which has been investigated in this study by means of a detailed multilevel model that includes all scales of an outbreak. Local spread within an infected farm is described by a stochastic compartment model while the spread between farms is quantified by atmospheric dispersion simulations using a network representation of the set of farms. The model was applied to the Swedish livestock industry and the risk for an epizootic outbreak in Sweden w

SUBMITTER: Bjornham O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7250458 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature