title: Economic Assessment of FMDv Releases from the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America.
authors.forename: Dustin L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Pendell
authors.affiliation: School of Economic Sciences and Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America.
authors.forename: Thomas L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Marsh
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America.
authors.forename: Keith H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Coble
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America.
authors.forename: Jayson L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Lusk
authors.affiliation: Signature Science, LLC, Austin, Texas, United States of America.
authors.forename: Sara C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Szmania
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes; D000383:Agriculture / Q000191:economics; D000818:Animals; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005536:Foot-and-Mouth Disease / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D029544:Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus; D006801:Humans; D007615:Kansas; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D062486:Public Health Surveillance; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology