A new publication from Ashley F. Railey, David Admason, Heather L. Simmons and Jonathan Rushton has recently been published. Titled ‘Economics of reducing response time to foreign-animal disease in the United States with point-of-care diagnostic tests‘, is now available online here.

Background
As low probability events, United States producers, value chain actors, and veterinary services (VS) have limited experience with identifying foreign animal disease (FAD), which can allow FADs to spread undetected. Point-of-care (POC) diagnostic testing may help reduce the time from detecting an initial suspect case to implementing actionable interventions compared to the current approach of only using laboratory diagnostic testing for disease diagnosis and confirmation. To evaluate the value of the reduced response time, we compare the associated costs between the two diagnostic approaches while accounting for the uncertainty surrounding the size of a FAD event.

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