The science of networks has revolutionised research into the dynamics of interacting
elements. It could be argued that epidemiology in particular has embraced the potential of …

Devastating epidemics of highly contagious animal diseases such as avian influenza,
classical swine fever, and foot-and-mouth disease underline the need for improved …

Infectious diseases both within human and animal populations often pose serious health
and socioeconomic risks. From a statistical perspective, their prediction is complicated by …

Individual Level Models (ILMs), a new class of models, are being applied to infectious
epidemic data to aid in the understanding of the spatio-temporal dynamics of infectious …

The basic reproductive number (R 0) is a fundamental measure used to quantify the
transmission potential of an epidemic in public health practice. However, R 0 cannot reflect …

An outbreak of foot-and mouth disease (FMD) in an FMD-free country such as Austria would
likely have serious consequences for the national livestock sector and economy. The …

Active disease surveillance during epidemics is of utmost importance in detecting and
eliminating new cases quickly, and targeting such surveillance to high-risk individuals is …

In 2001 the epidemics of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) in Great Britain, The
Netherlands and France have shown how fast FMDV may spread between farms. The …

To provide a basis for effective foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) prevention measures, factors
associated with local spread were investigated in this study using data of the 2010 FMD …

We investigated the influence of the spatial pattern of farms on the geographical spread of
infectious livestock diseases, such as classical swine fever, foot-and-mouth disease and …