Modeling the Effects of Multiple Intervention Strategies on Controlling Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Table 1

Model parameters and their interpretations.

Description	Symbol	Units	Baseline value	Ref.
Vaccine efficacy		—	0.5	[2]
Modification factor		—	0.4	Estimate
FMD transmission rate		Day^−1	0.6	[3]
Non-FMD related exit rate		Day^−1	0.001	[15]
Latency period for animals in class		Day^−1	0.26	[11]
Latency period for animals in class		Day^−1	0.07	[11]
Fraction of exposed animals vaccinated		—	0.65	Estimate
FMD-related death for animals in class		Day^−1	0.0008	[5]
FMD-related permanent exit from class		Day^−1	0.143	[3]
Detection and culling of infectious FMD carriers		Day^−1	0.25 (0–0.25)	[3]
Rate of vaccination for the susceptible population		Day^−1	0.25	[3]
Proportion of infectious animals detected and culled		—	0.85	Estimate
Proportion of infected animals that become carriers		—	0.45 (0.15–0.5)	[5]