Publications by authors named "Blagojcho Tabakovski"
Article Synopsis
- Globalization and interconnected animal production systems complicate efforts to control diseases like African swine fever (ASF), emphasizing the need for better understanding of trade networks.
- A study in North Macedonia focused on mapping the distribution of pigs and analyzing the pig movement network from 2017 to 2019, revealing mostly short-distance movements (within 50 km) and a few main hubs for shipments.
- The findings aim to enhance disease mitigation strategies, inform educational outreach, and support future disease modeling efforts in North Macedonia and the surrounding region.
African swine fever (ASF) and classical swine fever (CSF) are two major transboundary animal diseases of swine with important socioeconomic consequences at farm, subnational and national level. The objective of this study was to evaluate the direct cost of outbreaks and their control at country/regional level in four countries: namely CSF in Colombia in 2015-2016, the retrospective cost of ASF in the Philippines in 2019 and in a province of Vietnam in 2020 and a hypothetical ASF scenario in one region in North Macedonia, using the newly developed Outbreak Costing Tool (OutCosT). The tool calculates the costs of 106 different items, broken down by up to four types of farms, and by who assumes the cost (whether veterinary services, farmers or other stakeholders).
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