Dynamics of the 2001 UK Foot and Mouth Epidemic: Stochastic Dispersal in a Heterogeneous Landscape

J. Keeling, Matt; Woolhouse, Mark; J. Shaw, Darren; Matthews, Louise; Chase‐Topping, Margo; T. Haydon, Daniel; J. Cornell, Stephen; Kappey, Jens; W. Wilesmith, J.; T. Grenfell, Bryan

doi:10.1126/science.1065973

Public

Dynamics of the 2001 UK Foot and Mouth Epidemic: Stochastic Dispersal in a Heterogeneous Landscape

Published in Science • Oct 26, 2001

Authors:

Matt J. Keeling

Mark Woolhouse

Darren J. Shaw

Abstract

Foot-and-mouth is one of the world's most economically important livestock diseases. We developed an individual farm-based stochastic model of the current UK epidemic. The fine grain of the epidemiological data reveals the infection dynamics at an unusually high spatiotemporal resolution. We show th...

Subject

Biological dispersal

Outbreak

Geography

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!