Economic Assessment of FMDv Releases from the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility

Dustin Pendell, Thomas Marsh, Keith Coble, Jayson Lusk and Sara C Szmania

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 6, 1-22

Abstract: This study evaluates the economic consequences of hypothetical foot-and-mouth disease releases from the future National Bio and Agro Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas. Using an economic framework that estimates the impacts to agricultural firms and consumers, quantifies costs to non-agricultural activities in the epidemiologically impacted region, and assesses costs of response to the government, we find the distribution of economic impacts to be very significant. Furthermore, agricultural firms and consumers bear most of the impacts followed by the government and the regional non-agricultural firms.

Date: 2015
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