Inter-farm Model for Spread of Foot and Mouth Disease

Abstract

Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD), an extremely infectious viral disease affecting cloven-hooved animals, has been a problem in South Korea in the past few decades causing severe financial damages nationwide in the livestock industry. We establish a mathematical model to examine the farm-to-farm spread of FMD implementing vehicle movement between farms with Korea Animal Health Integrated System (KAHIS) data. Also, we establish a weighted network for the Korea's smallest local unit `Ri' using the vehicle movement in KAHIS data as a weight.