Outbreak

The Outbreak class allows the introduction of a disease outbreak event by the addition of new infected individuals or infection of existing individuals in a node. Outbreak is a node-level intervention; to distribute an outbreak to specific categories of existing individuals within a node, use parameter-campaign-individual-outbreakindividual.

Note

Parameters are case-sensitive. For Boolean parameters, set to 1 for true or 0 for false.
Minimum, maximum, or default values of "NA" indicate that those values are not applicable for
that parameter.

EMOD does not use true defaults; that is, if the dependency relationships indicate that a 
parameter is required, you must supply a value for it. However, many of the tools used to work 
with EMOD will use the default values provided below.

JSON format does not permit comments, but you can add "dummy" parameters to add contextual
information to your files. Any keys that are not EMOD parameter names will be ignored by the
model.

The table below describes all possible parameters with which this class can be configured. The JSON example that follows shows one potential configuration.

Parameter	Example	Description	Type	Min	Max	Default
Clade	link	The clade ID (Clade) of the outbreak infection. Together with the genome ID (Genome) they are a unitary object representing a strain of infection, which allows for differentiation among infections. Values for Clade may range from 0 to Number_of_Clades-1 (set in the configuration file).	integer	0	9	0
Genome	link	The genome ID (Genome) of the outbreak infection. Together with the clade ID (Clade) they represent an infection as a unitary object. Values for Genome may range from -1 to 2 Log2_Number_of_Genomes_per_Clade-1	integer	0	16777215	0
Import_Age	link	The age (in days) of infected import cases.	float	0	43800	365
Incubation_Period_Override	link	The incubation period, in days, that infected individuals will go through before becoming infectious. This value overrides the incubation period set in the configuration file. Set to -1 to honor the configuration parameter settings.	integer	-1	2147480000	-1
Number_Cases_Per_Node	link	The number of new cases of Outbreak to import (per node). .. note:: This will increase the population and there is no control over demographics of these individuals.	integer	0	2147480000	1

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