Modelling livestock infectious disease control policy under differing social perspectives on vaccination behaviour.

ABSTRACT: The spread of infection amongst livestock depends not only on the traits of the pathogen and the livestock themselves, but also on the veterinary health behaviours of farmers and how this impacts their implementation of disease control measures. Controls that are costly may make it beneficial for individuals to rely on the protection offered by others, though that may be sub-optimal for the population. Failing to account for socio-behavioural properties may produce a substantial layer of bias in infectious disease models. We investigated the role of heterogeneity in vaccine response across a population of farmers on epidemic outbreaks amongst livestock, caused by pathogens with differential speed of spread over spatial landscapes of farms for two counties in England (Cumbria and Devon). Un

SUBMITTER: Hill EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9282555 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature