Economic Assessment of FMDv Releases from the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0129134 and PMC identifier 4482686.
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Abstract
This study evaluates the economic consequences of hypothetical foot-and-mouth disease releases from the future National Bio and Agro Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas. Using an economic framework that estimates the impacts to agricultural firms and consumers, quantifies costs to non-agricultural activities in the epidemiologically impacted region, and assesses costs of response to the government, we find the distribution of economic impacts to be very significant. Furthermore, agricultural firms and consumers bear most of the impacts followed by the government and the regional non-agricultural firms.
Medical subject headings
- Academies and Institutes
- Agriculture
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Foot-and-Mouth Disease
- Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus