Epidemic Prevention Plan of Foot-and-mouth Disease Considering the Installation of Disinfecting Points

Abstract

Act on Domestic Animal Infectious Disease Control requires to take such measures as culling or installing disinfecting points on roads when the infection of foot-and-mouth disease is observed. Because the installing of the disinfecting points also affect to local transportation seriously, it is important to develop an epidemic prevention plan considering the impact on local transportation as well as the effects onto livestock. This paper developed a spatial infection model considering the effect both on livestock and local transportation to contribute the development of an epidemic prevention planning. As the result of a case study using a toy network, it was confirmed that the installing disinfecting points affects trade-off relationship between livestock and local transportation. Furthermore, it was confirmed that even if the disinfecting points are installed prophylactically before observing the infection on foot-andmouth disease, the effect onto livestock may not be large if the number of prophylactically installed disinfecting point is small.