Foot & Mouth Disease
Foot-and-mouth disease risk associated with proximity to infected premises
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 24th, 2004
According to a study from England, "An analysis was made that calculated the risk of disease for premises in the most heavily affected parts of the county of Cumbria during the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic in the UK in 2001.
"In over half the cases the occurrence of the disease was not directly attributable to a recently infected premises being located within 1.5 km."
"Premises more than 1.5 km from recently infected premises faced sufficiently high infection risks that culling within a 1.5 km radius of the infected premises alone could not have...
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