Distribution of cow-calf producers' beliefs about reporting cattle with clinical signs of foot-and-mouth disease to a veterinarian before or during a hypothetical outbreak

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 117, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 505-517

  Delgado, Amy H ^a   Norby, Bo ^b   Scott, H Morgan ^c   Dean, Wesley ^d   McIntosh, W Alex ^e   Bush, Eric ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ANIMAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion CNPP   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Cattle; Disease reporting; Foot and mouth disease; Foreign animal disease control; Surveillance; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; INFECTION CONTROL; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEXAS;

EID: 84912086618     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2014.09.011     Document Type: Article

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