[March 31, 2025] Biosecurity for Livestock Diseases in Europe: Transmission, Risk Factors, and Modelling

Your Evidence-Based Guide to Biosecurity for Livestock Diseases

Biosecurity practices can help prevent the introduction and spread of disease, promoting better animal and human health. This book provides valuable background information to help you better understand and prioritize biosecurity measures. Driven by an evidence-based and cost-effective approach, it is divided into two sections covering endemic diseases and epidemic diseases with the potential for large-scale outbreaks.

Key Features

• Evidence-Based Approach: Driven by an evidence-based and cost-effective approach to biosecurity, this book provides valuable background information to help you better understand and prioritize biosecurity measures.
• Comprehensive Coverage: It reviews our current understanding of biosecurity throughout the livestock production chain and across the principal terrestrial animal species, including poultry, swine, cattle, and small ruminants.
• Detailed Information: Through a series of disease entries, it covers prevalence, risk factors, transmission routes, current control measures, and data for transmission modeling for each disease.
• Research and Professional Resource: By summarizing current knowledge on a range of diseases, this book forms both a useful resource for researchers and professionals in animal disease prevention and a starting off point for identifying information gaps and requirements for future research.
• Dual Focus: It is divided into two sections covering endemic diseases typically present within most countries and epidemic diseases with the potential for large-scale outbreaks.