In the wake of on‐going successful programmes for global eradication of rinderpest and the
current effort to contain the spread of avian influenza, the progressive world‐wide control of …

Investigations of infectious disease outbreaks are conventionally framed in terms of person,
time and place. Although geographic information systems have increased the range of tools …

African swine fever (ASF), have been introduced into the Russian Federation from
Transcaucasia countries, has spread widely across the territory of the southern region of …

In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method for identifying and
evaluating the relation ship between clusters in a set primarily based on the connec tivity …

In our study, we used geographic information system (GIS)-based multi-criteria decision
analysis (MCDA) to predict suitable areas for foot and mouth disease (FMD) occurrence in …

This article presents a participative and iterative qualitative risk assessment framework that
can be used to evaluate the spatial variation of the risk of infectious animal disease …

The daily progression of the 2006 (January–June) Nigerian avian influenza (AI H5N1)
epidemic was assessed in relation to both spatial variables and the generation interval of …

A model of epidemic dispersal (based on the assumption that susceptible cattle were
homogeneously mixed over space, or non-spatial model) was compared to a partially …

Background To effectively control the geographical dissemination of infectious diseases,
their properties need to be determined. To test that rapid microbial dispersal requires not …

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most serious transboundary, contagious viral
diseases of cloven-hoofed livestock, because it can spread rapidly with high morbidity rates …