R 0 Estimation for the African Swine Fever Epidemics in Wild Boar of Czech Republic and Belgium

African swine fever (ASF) is a contagious haemorrhagic fever that affects both domesticated and wild pigs. Since ASF reached Europe wild boar populations have been a reservoir for the virus. Collecting reliable data on infected individuals in wild populations is challenging, and this makes it difficult to deploy an effective eradication strategy. However, for diseases with high lethality rate, infected carcasses can be used as a proxy for the number of infected individuals at a certain time. Then R 0 parameter can be used to estimate the time distribution of the number of newly infected indivi... Mehr ...