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FMD model published at OpenABM

June 8, 2016

FMD model published at OpenABM

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An agent-based model that examines the role of livestock mobility on the transmission of foot-and-mouth disease is posted at OpenABM. The purpose of the model is to understand how host mobility affects disease transmission. More specifically, we examined the impact of seasonal movements of mobile pastoralists on the transmission of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the Far North Region of Cameroon. This model was used for the simulations that we published in the following paper: Kim, Hyeyoung, Xiao, Ningchuan, Moritz, Mark, Garabed, Rebecca and Pomeroy, Laura W. (2016) Simulating the Transmission of Foot-And-Mouth Disease Among Mobile Herds in the Far North Region, Cameroon. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 19 (2) 6.