Effects of a traceability system on the economic impacts of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

This thesis creates an epidemiological foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) spread model for Ontario. Disease simulations are constructed to reflect three levels of the cattle identification and movement recording system. The outputs generated by the epidemiological model are used to calculate the direct di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Jason Patrick Harris
Other Authors: Carlberg, Jared (Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics)
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
Subjects:
FMD
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4227