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The Fencing Issue Relative to the Control of Foot‐and‐Mouth Disease
Author(s) -
SUTMOLLER PAUL
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04377.x
Subject(s) - fencing , livestock , foot and mouth disease , wildlife , disease , hazard , disease control , geography , wildlife disease , transmission (telecommunications) , environmental protection , business , environmental health , outbreak , medicine , ecology , biology , engineering , forestry , computer science , electrical engineering , pathology , virology , parallel computing
A bstract : Certain livestock diseases in sub‐Saharan Africa, such as foot‐and‐mouth disease are difficult to control because of the large numbers of infected wildlife hosts. These wildlife disease reservoirs form a continuous hazard of transmittal of the diseases to domestic livestock, which limits the access of livestock products from southern Africa to international markets. The disease reservoirs are often found in border areas between countries with susceptible species and infected reservoir animals continuously crossing the border. A regional approach to disease control is probably the only way to achieve any real progress. Here we review the positive and negative attributes of fencing as a control mechanism for disease transmission.