Abstract
Dairy herd health programs are being implemented in various countries for over 15 years. Advice to the farmer is usually not backed up by statistical analyses. The risk assessment component of veterinary epidemiology deals with the identification and quantification of risk factors and conditions contributing to multifactorial disease occurrence. In this paper on Italian footrot it is shown that the application of epidemiological risk indicator profiles can be useful for setting herd health priorities and for manipulating environmental risk factors to reduce disease occurrence.
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