CADMS Research Page
CADMS is made up of two research groups
- The Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Surveillance and Modeling Lab (FMD)
- The Animal Disease Modeling Lab (ADM)
The Animal Disease Modeling Lab (ADM)
led by Dr. Tim Carpenter.
The focus of the ADM lab is to predict the spread of animal diseases if they were to enter the US. In conjunction with this, various control strategies are tested in order to evaluate their effectiveness and economic efficiency. Currently our major project is modeling FMD. Starting in 1997 with a PhD project, the lab began working to develop a simulation model that can predict how an outbreak of FMD might spread and best be controlled. Initially this model was developed for a 3-county region of California, but with increased funding, the efforts have expanded so that the current version can simulate the spread throughout the entire state of California. Work is underway to increase the scope of the model to a national level.
If you are a livestock producer in the US and would be interested in helping us develop this model by sharing some information about your farming practices please visit our US Livestock Disease Survey. We hope the results will be beneficial to livestock producers, the economy and of course the animal population in the US.
The Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Surveillance and Modeling Lab (FMD)
led by Dr. Mark Thurmond
The FMD Laboratory develops models for global FMD surveillance. These models and the BioPortal-FMD web system make use of FMD case data from the OIE, FAO, and elsewhere, and of related information, such as vaccination, animal density, and trade.
Click here for a short movie clip of the recent UK Foot-and-mouth disease outbreak as seen from Google Earth