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Animal Disease Pre-Event Preparedness versus Post-Event Response: When Is It Economic to Protect?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Levan Elbakidze  and
Bruce A. McCarl
Levan Elbakidze
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
Bruce A. McCarl
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
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Abstract

We examine the economic tradeoff between the costs of pre-event preparedness and post-event response to the potential introduction of an infectious animal disease. In a simplified case study setting, we examine the conditions for optimality of an enhanced pre-event detection system considering various characteristics of a potential infectious cattle disease outbreak, costs of program implementation, severity of the disease outbreak, and relative effectiveness of postevent response actions. We show that the decision to invest in pre-event preparedness activities depends on such factors as probability of disease introduction, disease spread rate, relative costs, ancillary benefits, and effectiveness of mitigation strategies.

Keywords

animal diseaseeconomic balancemitigation strategiespreparednessresponseQ1Q18D81
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Invited Paper Sessions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , August 2006 , pp. 327 - 336
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2006

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