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Link Between Service Coverage of Slaughterhouse and the Potential Disease Transmission: Analyzing the Livestock Movements Data for Simulation Exercise (CPX)

  • Journal of the Korean Cartographic Association
  • Abbr : JKCA
  • 2016, 16(1), pp.67-77
  • DOI : 10.16879/jkca.2016.16.1.067
  • Publisher : The Korean Cartographic Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Geography > Geography in general > Cartography
  • Published : April 30, 2016

Pak Son Il 1 Bae Sunhak 1

1강원대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this study we analyzed data on livestock movements to slaughterhouse, which were extracted from the KAHIS (Korean Animal Health Integrated System) and provided by Quarantine Inspection Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. Specifically, the coverage of the slaughterhouse was explored and presented for typical example cases, and the results were visualized in the form of a spatial map using GIS. Although the coverage of slaughter service varied depending on the geographic locations of each slaughterhouse, the number of farms nearby, and the number of consumer’s market, the majority of slaughterhouse covered whole country. This finding suggests that an epidemic once occurred in a random area is not localized minimally but likely to spread rapidly throughout the country and such a wide-connected slaughter coverage is of particular important from an epidemiological perspective. The results of this study could be used in defining protection zone for target surveillance, for detecting high-risk slaughterhouses both for contracting and spreading an infection, and as inputs for simulation exercise of livestock disease transmission.

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