作者: Patrizia Colangeli , Lara Savini , Annamaria Conte , Carla Ippoliti , Ugo Santucci
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摘要: Outbreaks of highly contagious animal diseases severely affect the global economy, seriously disrupting domestic economies and international trade livestock commodities. Italy has a series contingency plans for management outbreaks all major diseases. Disease control measures are mainly based on traditional approach eradication policies range from culling stamping-out to movement restrictions animals Given marked terrain differences in Italy, uneven distribution farms population, presence potential disease hotspots constituted by high-density clusters animals, etc., maps have always been common working tool Italian veterinary services identify location premises, define perimeter infected zones, etc. The Ministry Health requested an integrated system emergencies. One main features is interactive, customisable user-friendly Web-based geographic information (GIS). Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise 'G. Caporale' entrusted with development that provides different administrative levels spatial decisional assist them case epidemics. A GIS designed integrate epidemiological corresponding component. works basis (disease-specific maps) fifteen most accessible through Web, allowing real-time recording new outbreaks.