Comparing control strategies against foot-and-mouth disease: Will vaccination be cost-effective in Denmark?

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 111, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 206-219

  Boklund, A ^a   Halasa, T ^a   Christiansen, L E ^a   Enoe C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cost benefit; Denmark; Export; FMD; Foot and mouth disease; Modelling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST-BENEFIT; DENMARK; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIC; EXPORT; FMD; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; LIVESTOCK; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VACCINATION; VIROLOGY;

COST-BENEFIT; DENMARK; EXPORT; FMD; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; MODELLING; SIMULATION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; LIVESTOCK; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 84881314634     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.05.008     Document Type: Article

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