Vaccination strategies were categorized by vaccine disease control strategy (preemptive use for endemic disease or to prevent an outbreak, and reactive use for outbreak control) and vaccine delivery strategy (community-based routine, community-based campaign and school-based).
The immunization strategy discussed in this paper is not the only option for outbreak control agencies.
Nonetheless, mumps outbreaks in well-vaccinated populations continue to occur, posing challenges for outbreak control.
This finding has important implications for outbreak response and public health decisions and should alleviate several previously raised concerns.
Information on ASF transmission parameters could allow for more efficient application of outbreak control measures.
All available serotype-specific antibody tests, including VNT, show cross reactions [ 39- 41], which have grave implications for the control of FMD in the Eastern Africa countries that greatly rely on serology for serotyping of outbreaks.
While resistance emergence is more likely within such a strategy, the implications for epidemic control are strongly dependent on the relative fitness of mutant strains, with the potential for either reduced or extended delays to an uncontrolled outbreak.
Our study has important implications for TB control in China.
These implications for disease control measures, to minimise between-farm spread via fomites during farm visits, are applicable to the period prior to the detection and notification of an outbreak to the authorities [ 17].
