Outbreak

The Outbreak class allows the introduction of a disease outbreak event by the addition of new infected or susceptible individuals to 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	Type	Min	Max	Default	Description
Antigen	integer	0	10	0	The antigenic base strain ID of the outbreak infection.
Genome	integer	-1	1.67e+07	0	The genome ID 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 \(2^{Log2\_Number\_of\_Genomes\_per\_Clade-1}\). Set this to -1 to create a random number generator.
Import_Age	float	0	43800	365	The age (in days) of imported individuals.
Number_Cases_Per_Node	integer	0	2.14748e+09	1	The number of new imported individuals. !!! note This will increase the population with demographics of 50/50 male/female and user-defined ages
Probability_Of_Infection	float	0	1	1	The probability that new individuals are infected. 1.0 implies all new individuals are infected while 0.0 adds all of the people as susceptible individuals.

{
    "Events": [
        {
            "Event_Coordinator_Config": {
                "Demographic_Coverage": 0.001,
                "Intervention_Config": {
                    "Clade": 1,
                    "Genome": 3,
                    "Import_Age": 365,
                    "Number_Cases_Per_Node": 10,
                    "Probability_Of_Infection": 0.7,
                    "class": "Outbreak"
                },
                "Target_Demographic": "Everyone",
                "class": "StandardInterventionDistributionEventCoordinator"
            },
            "Event_Name": "Outbreak",
            "Nodeset_Config": {"class": "NodeSetAll"},
            "Start_Day": 30,
            "class": "CampaignEvent"
        }
    ]
}