Economic Impact of Alternative FMD Emergency Vaccination Strategies in the Midwestern United States

Ted Schroeder, Dustin L. Pendell, Michael W. Sanderson and Sara McReynolds

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2025, vol. 47, issue 01

Abstract: An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the United States would likely result in major costs to producers, consumers, and government. How animal health officials manage such an outbreak has substantial impact on probable losses. Without an emergency FMD vaccination strategy, producer and consumer losses of an FMD outbreak in the midwestern United States would likely approach $188 billion, and government costs would likely exceed $11 billion. In contrast, a high-capacity emergency vaccination program together with a large vaccination zone would reduce median consumer and producer losses to approximately $56 billion and government costs to a little more than $1 billion.

Keywords: Health; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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Journal Article: ECONOMIC IMPACT OF ALTERNATIVE FMD EMERGENCY VACCINATION STRATEGIES IN THE MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES (2015)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.348936

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