A Computational Re-evaluation of Spatial Trials for Zoonotic Tuberculosis Control: Model Misspecification, Diagnostic Misclassification, and the Illusion of Wildlife Culling Efficacy
Wildlife reservoir management frequently relies on the Randomised Badger Culling Trial’s (RBCT) trade-off hypothesis, which posits that reductions in cattle herd infections are offset by a perturbation effect driven by disrupted host dispersal. This paper evaluates the computational and epidemiological robustness of th...