Abstract:Impacts• Implementing reduction strategies for surveillance systems that were developed to protect public health is challenging. The apparently contradictory requirements for continued consumer confidence in food supply, and cost reduction for industry need to be met.• We use zero-inflated modelling to demonstrate how targeting farms in space and by risk factors has the potential to result in more efficient ways of conducting surveillance.• This allows assessment of the factors that affect herd infection statu… Show more
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