Game Theory Meets Vaccination: Optimizing Scarce Foot-and-Mouth Disease Resources

When a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak strikes, the speed of the response often outpaces available resources. Limited vaccine supplies, competing demands between regions, and urgent decision-making make it challenging for policymakers to allocate resources efficiently while minimizing the outbreak’s impact. A recent study offers a fresh approach to tackle this problem by combining stochastic modeling with game theory to strategically guide vaccine allocation decisions.