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. 2015 Dec 14;2:72. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2015.00072

Table 2.

Summaries of predicted outbreak duration in days, number of culled animals and number of IP of 150 model simulations for the scenario with vaccination (V) and without vaccination (NV) in comparison with the recorded data of the 1965/66 FMD outbreak in Switzerland.

Outbreak duration
Animals culled
Infected Premises
V NV V NV V NV
Minimum 12 12 123 129 1 1
25th percentile 25 24 249 285 5 6
Median 56 79 605 774 20 20
75th percentile 224 725 4088 865,785 176 35,818
90th percentile 520 553 30,381 974,246 1690 39,623
92.5th percentile 656 718 31,299 994,246 1876 40,272
95th percentile 714 724 32,400 1,012,856 2080 41,280
97.5th percentile 718 725 35,522 1,030,458 2378 42,240
Maximum 730 730 55,990 1,195,757 3180 47,122

The outbreak duration of the 1965/66 epidemic was 150 days with 51,215 animals in 942 premises culled.