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Foot-and-mouth disease

Official evidence, 11-region exposure and transparent national planning economics.

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Official disease status · 2026-09-07

Foot-and-mouth disease

The WOAH status framework and national notification source are registered; no current domestic outbreak count is inferred.

Selected geography
Belgium
Susceptible livestock
8.74m
Evidence nature
Observed / official
Exposure layer

Belgium · susceptible livestock

Eurostat GISCO NUTS 2021
Exposure is livestock inventory—not inferred prevalence. Regional selection updates supported evidence; the CBA remains explicitly national because regional cost evidence is unavailable.
Validated exposure

Belgium

cattle2.34m
pigs6.22m
sheep110.12k
goats75.36k

Eurostat ef_lsk_main · 2020 observations; source grain retained.

Official signal at selected grain

No numeric national event series is published in the registered official source. The status narrative remains available.

Observed economics · national/source scope
Observed direct loss · national
N/A
Published programme cost · source scope
N/A
Monetised trade effect
N/A

No compatible current Belgium-specific direct-loss estimate is registered; no value is inferred.

Relevant wildlife & interface

Wildlife evidence

No compatible current national wildlife-population layer is registered.

Population denominators remain unavailable unless explicitly registered; qualitative host evidence is not converted into a count.
ILLUSTRATIVE

Illustrative scenario—country-specific intervention evidence unavailable.

The planning parameters are retained, but the BCR is not estimated in this public profile.

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Control choices

Default option scenarios

  1. 01Emergency-plan readinessPlanning option retained for explicit activation in Scenario Lab
  2. 02Rapid tracing and movement controlsPlanning option retained for explicit activation in Scenario Lab
  3. 03Emergency vaccination assessmentPlanning option retained for explicit activation in Scenario Lab
Trade & movement

Documented consequence

Emergency planning, rapid tracing, movement controls and vaccination assessment.

Registered sources document controls but not a compatible Belgium-wide monetised trade consequence.
Release principle: every Belgium disease has a complete decision workspace. Missing observed economics stay visible as N/A; modelled planning values are separately labelled, editable and never presented as evidence.
Sustainability & One HealthCountry-specific GHG, AMU/AMR and biodiversity results remain withheld until compatible evidence is registered; none is inferred from the disease profile.
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