Mobster
Client:
ingenum
Year:
2018
Location:
New Zealand
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A co-designed, native, touch-screen application that allows users to describe a farm system; on-farm, in real-time and fully updateable that captures consistent information and supplements existing centralised disease control systems
Mobster
'Livestock farming is managing mobs, you need to think like this'
Understanding a farm systerm is vital to disease control
Farm systems affect disease dynamics
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Disease transmission differs between animals within a group and between groups
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Risks typically occur at a group level.
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Influences our definitions of in-contact animals
Farm systems affect speed of response
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Legal notices to restrict movement, slaughter stock and cleaning and disinfection issued at group level
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Targeting actions require a rapid acquisition of information.
Farm systems affect cost of action
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Untargeted actions mean greater economic, social and welfare costs.
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Response activities (after initial activities) are typically scrutinised to find efficiencies.
