Multilayer network analysis of FMD transmission and containment among beef cattle farms

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 15679 - 10
• Main Authors: Yi, Chunlin, Yang, Qihui, Scoglio, Caterina M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 20.09.2022; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 692/420/254; 692/699/255; Alliances; Animal diseases; Beef; Beef cattle; Cattle; Economics; Epidemics; Farms; Foot & mouth disease; Humanities and Social Sciences; Infections; Information sharing; Livestock; Livestock farming; multidisciplinary; Outbreaks; Quarantine; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Topology; Viral diseases; Viruses

As a highly contagious livestock viral disease, foot-and-mouth disease poses a great threat to the beef-cattle industry. Direct animal movement is always considered as a major route for between-farm transmission of FMD virus. Sharing contaminated equipment and vehicles have also attracted increasing...