The Effect of the Post 2001 Reforms on FMD Risks of the International Live Animal Trade

The 2001 UK foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic marked a change in global FMD management, focusing less on trade isolation than on biosecurity within countries where FMD is endemic. Post 2001 policy calls for the isolation of disease-free zones in FMD-endemic countries, while increasing the opport...

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Published in:EcoHealth 2018-06, Vol.15 (2), p.327-337
Main Authors: Shanafelt, David W., Perrings, C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal diseases
Animal Ecology
Animals
Biosecurity
Commerce - economics
Commerce - legislation & jurisprudence
Commerce - organization & administration
Communicable Disease Control - economics
Communicable Disease Control - legislation & jurisprudence
Communicable Disease Control - organization & administration
Disease control
Disease Notification - statistics & numerical data
Disease Outbreaks - economics
Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control
Disease Outbreaks - veterinary
Ecosystems
empirical models
Environmental Health
Epidemics
Foot & mouth disease
foot-and-mouth disease
Foot-and-Mouth Disease - economics
Foot-and-Mouth Disease - epidemiology
Foot-and-Mouth Disease - prevention & control
Health risks
Humanities and Social Sciences
International trade
Internationality
issues and policy
Livestock industry
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Microbiology
Original Contribution
Outbreaks
Public Health
Risk
trade
United Kingdom
Vaccination - economics
Vaccination - veterinary
Water and Health
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Summary:The 2001 UK foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic marked a change in global FMD management, focusing less on trade isolation than on biosecurity within countries where FMD is endemic. Post 2001 policy calls for the isolation of disease-free zones in FMD-endemic countries, while increasing the opportunities for trade. The impact of the change on disease risk has yet to be tested. In this paper, we estimate an empirical model of disease risk that tests for the impact of trade volumes before and after 2001, controlling for biosecurity measures. In the pre 2001 regime, we find that poor biosecurity was associated with the probability of reporting an outbreak. In the post 2001 regime, the risks changed, with trade being a much greater source of risk. We discuss the trade-off between trade restrictions and biosecurity measures in the management of FMD disease risks.
ISSN:1612-9202
1612-9210
DOI:10.1007/s10393-018-1315-8