Year: 2001
Type: book
Abstract: A more closed farming system can be a good starting point for eradication of infectious diseases.However, the economic implications of biosecurity measures are not always obvious to farmers.The management decisions regarding biosecurity may be related to different parts of the farm and are farm specific.A model to support such management decisions was developed as a first attempt to model the economic consequences of certain biosecurity measures.A simple model, which is static and deterministic in design, was chosen.The risk factors in the model were solely based on bovine herpesvirus 1, but losses due to introduction of other infectious diseases (bovine viral diarrhoea virus, Leptospira hardjo and Salmonella dubliri) were also added into the model.The economic consequences of these biosecurity measures for various risk factors are shown.
Authors: G. van Schaik, M. Nielen, A.A. Dijkhuizen
Language: English
Subfield: Animal Science and Zoology
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W200582631