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.
Publication types
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Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
MeSH terms
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Academies and Institutes*
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Agriculture* / economics
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Animals
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Cost-Benefit Analysis*
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Foot-and-Mouth Disease / economics*
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Foot-and-Mouth Disease / epidemiology*
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Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus*
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Humans
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Kansas
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Models, Theoretical
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Public Health Surveillance
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United States / epidemiology
Grants and funding
The authors acknowledge financial support to the Department of Homeland Security for conducting the research and the School of Economic Sciences IMPACT center for writing of this paper. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.