TITLE:
The patterns and risks for disease spreading of cattle movement in China
AUTHORS:
Xiangdong Sun, Yongjun Liu, Youming Wang, Peng Li, Aizhen Guo, Zhining Jia, Xiaofeng Wang, Hongjie Zhang, Jian Zhang, Yong Yu, Yanwei Sun, Baoxu Huang
KEYWORDS:
Cattle Movement; Disease Spread; Market Value Chain; Risk Analysis
JOURNAL NAME:
Agricultural Sciences,
Vol.4 No.12,
December
25,
2013
ABSTRACT: In order to reduce the risks for the spread of disease in cattle movements, we investigated China’s cattle breeding and movement pattern, analyzed risk factors of disease infection caused by long-distance movement, explored the relevant risk management measures and conjectured the direction of cattle movement based on the regional distribution of cattle inventory and beef price. We also constructed a market value chain in live cattle movements and qualitatively analyzed the risks for unapparent infection in the process of movement. Meanwhile, we put forward a long-term policy of reducing the risks for unapparent infection and animal health supervision measures.