Overview
The Animal Disease Spread Model (ADSM) is a software application that simulates the spread of highly contagious animal diseases in a susceptible population. Applied control measures can influence the disease outbreak. ADSM features upgraded technology and a redesigned user interface combined with the trusted logic of NAADSM
Applications
Evaluate proposed disease control strategies for planning and policy decisions.
Provide “what if” scenarios for outbreak planning exercises.
Estimate consequences as part of the risk analysis process.
Assess the potential economic impacts of disease and associated control measures.
Provide input for emergency preparedness and surveillance plans and activities.
Create simple scenarios for an educational setting or complex scenarios for policy research.
Communicate principles of epidemiology and disease control.
Support researchers who incorporate disease modeling in their work.
Explore questions related to resources needed in the event of an outbreak.
Offer outreach and training in the use of disease models in general, and of ADSM in particular, to scientific and veterinary communities.
Key Characteristics
ADSM is herd based. Disease manifestation and transmission are represented at the level of a herd/flock of animals, rather than at the individual animal level.
ADSM is a state transition model. Each infected herd transitions from a susceptible state to and infected state and back to an immune state.
ADSM is a stochastic simulation. It mimics the random processes responsible for disease spread. Each simulated outbreak is the result of a unique series of random events and processes. When analyzed together, many simulated outbreaks represent a range of possible outcomes, given a set of shared assumption.
ADSM simulates spatial and temporal aspects of disease spread. Each herd in a scenario is assigned a physical location and disease progression occurs in daily time steps.
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Find out more about how to use the ADSM program on our wiki:
https://github.com/NAVADMC/ADSM/wiki