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SafeGuard. Work package 1.7 Minimisation of the economic consequences of Aujeszky’s Disease outbreaks in the Euregio NL-NRW-NDS
Project
Project code: keine Angabe
Contract period: 01.01.2008
- 31.12.2013
Purpose of research: Applied research
The Euregio of the Netherlands-Nordrhein-Westfalen-Niedersachsen is one large
area of production and consumption of pig products. These products include
slaughter pigs and meat, as well as piglets for further fattening. An important
part of the Dutch pig farming sector is focused on the sale of meat-type pigs
and piglets in NRW and NS, while pig farming in NRW and NS relies to an
important extent on Dutch piglets.
Major economic consequences will ensue should the Netherlands experience a
new outbreak of Aujeszky’s Disease (AD). These consequences would deviate
to a considerable extent from those of other contagious animal diseases such
as FMD and CSF. This can be attributed to the control strategy, which is based
on vaccination and letting contaminated as well as vaccinated animals live. In
most cases, a surplus of (vaccinated) piglets will arise in the contaminated area,
causing the prices in this area to fall (considerably). On the other hand, if the
outbreak and thus the contaminated area are relatively large, then this can cause
a shortfall in piglets outside the AD area in the short and medium term, which in
turn will engender housing issues as well as price increases in the Netherlands
as well as NRW and NS.
The objective of this research was to offer tools at the tactical level as well
as at the strategic level, which serve to minimise the economic impact of AD
outbreaks on the Euregio.
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Subjects
- Animal health
