Tudor Toma(ttoma@mail.dntis.ro) | Apr 11, 2001 | 1 min read
To evaluate the best tactics for fighting the current foot and mouth crisis in the UK, a team from Imperial College School of Medicine, London applied a mathematical model and calculated the potential for disease transmission, given different scenarios. In their report in 13 April Science online they show that rapid, pre-emptive ring culling of livestock surrounding the sites with infected animals is the best way to slow the epidemic.Ferguson et al fed the current epidemiological data into a mat