Simulated financial losses of classical swine fever epidemics in the Finnish pig production sector

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 194-212

  Niemi, J K ^a   Lehtonen, H ^a   Pietola, K ^a   Lyytikainen T ^b   Raulo, S ^c  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NATL VET AND FOOD RES INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Classical swine fever; Dynamic programming; Epidemics; Financial loss; Modeling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIC; FINLAND; MEAT; MEAT INDUSTRY; MICROBIOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER; COMMERCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FINLAND; MEAT; MEAT-PACKING INDUSTRY; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SWINE;

SUIDAE;

EID: 41249087550     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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