Items for "foot-and-mouth disease"

A Decision-support System for Real-time Risk Assessment of Airborne Spread of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus

Objectives: The application of epidemic models during the first days following the confirmation of a virus outbreak should significantly contribute to minimize its costs...

Keywords: Risk assessment, airborne transmission of a virus, Gaussian dispersion model, foot-and-mouth disease, geographical information systems, veterinary epidemiology