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Forecasting the Spread of Raccoon Rabies Using a Purpose-Specific Group Decisionmaking Process

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and USDA Wildlife Services (WS) have been involved in an oral rabies vaccination (ORV) program for raccoons (Procyon lotor) that has slowed the westward spread of raccoon rabies. The objective of this study was to forecast the spread of the disease if an ORV zone was not maintained. A group decision-making process was designed to address the forecasting problem and was implemented using a group of 15 experts and 4 support personnel at a meeting at the USDA National Wildlife Research Center. Ten expansion regions were constructed that described the spread of disease at 2-year intervals. This forecast may provide for more accurate cost-benefit analysis of the ORV barrier.

Source: Lincoln (University of Nebraska)

DOI: 10.26077/an27-z240

Authors: Aaron M. Anderson, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Richard B. Chipman, Todd Atwood, Tyler Cozzens, Frank Fillo, Robert Hale, Brody Hatch, Joanne Maki, Olin E. Rhodes, Erin E. Rees, Charles E. Rupprecht, Rowland Tinline, Kurt C. VerCauteren, Dennis Slate

Institutions: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, National Wildlife Research Center, Université de Montréal, Global Alliance for Rabies Control, Queen's University, Queens University

Language: English

Topic: Rabies epidemiology and control

Subfield: Virology

Field: Immunology and Microbiology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W40022508

FWCI: 0.528

Cites: 27

Cited by: 9

Related to: 10