Livestock movement informs the risk of disease spread in traditional production systems in East Africa.

ABSTRACT: In Africa, livestock are important to local and national economies, but their productivity is constrained by infectious diseases. Comprehensive information on livestock movements and contacts is required to devise appropriate disease control strategies; yet, understanding contact risk in systems where herds mix extensively, and where different pathogens can be transmitted at different spatial and temporal scales, remains a major challenge. We deployed Global Positioning System collars on cattle in 52 herds in a traditional agropastoral system in western Serengeti, Tanzania, to understand fine-scale movements and between-herd contacts, and to identify locations of greatest interaction between herds. We examined contact across spatiotemporal scales relevant to different disease transmission

SUBMITTER: Ekwem D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8361167 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature