Journal
TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES
Volume 68, Issue 4, Pages 1910-1965Publisher
WILEY-HINDAWI
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13919
Keywords
domestic livestock; economic impact; feral swine; foreign animal diseases; risk assessment
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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This study assesses the risk posed by African swine fever, classical swine fever, and foot-and-mouth disease entering the United States, emphasizing the importance of allocating resources, evaluating control method costs, and implementing protective measures to minimize impact.
African swine fever (ASF), classical swine fever (CSF) and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) are considered to be three of the most detrimental animal diseases and are currently foreign to the U.S. Emerging and re-emerging pathogens can have tremendous impacts in terms of livestock morbidity and mortality events, production losses, forced trade restrictions, and costs associated with treatment and control. The United States is the world's top producer of beef for domestic and export use and the world's third-largest producer and consumer of pork and pork products; it has also recently been either the world's largest or second largest exporter of pork and pork products. Understanding the routes of introduction into the United States and the potential economic impact of each pathogen are crucial to (a) allocate resources to prevent routes of introduction that are believed to be more probable, (b) evaluate cost and efficacy of control methods and (c) ensure that protections are enacted to minimize impact to the most vulnerable industries. With two scoping literature reviews, pulled from global data, this study assesses the risk posed by each disease in the event of a viral introduction into the United States and illustrates what is known about the economic costs and losses associated with an outbreak.
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