Evaluation of the appicatoion of veteroinary judgement in the pre‐emptive cull of contiguous premises during the epidemic of foot‐and‐mouth disease in Cumbria in 2001
- 18 September 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Veterinary Record
- Vol. 155 (12) , 349-355
- https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.155.12.349
Abstract
This paper presents a detailed analysis of the application of contiguous culling in Cumbria between May 1 and September 30, during the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 2001. The analysis shows that the application of veterinary risk assessment and judgement identified and removed groups of susceptible stock which were at risk of direct transmission of infection and avoided infected animals being left that might have spread the disease. When compared with an automatic contiguous cull, fewer culls were made and some of these were reduced in scale, providing economies in the use of resources. The data suggest that farms contiguous to an infected premises faced a 5 per cent risk of infection by direct transmission and a 12 per cent risk of infection by indirect transmission.Keywords
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