The risk of foot-and-mouth disease becoming endemic in a wildlife host is driven by spatial extent rather than density.

In the past 20 years, free living populations of feral wild boar have re-established in several locations across the UK. One of the largest populations is in the Forest of Dean where numbers have been steadily increasing since monitoring began in 2008, with estimates from 2016 reporting a population...

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Main Authors: Simon Croft, James N Aegerter, Giovanna Massei, Graham C Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218898