Parameter Levels for Sensitivity Analysis of HPAI Outbreaks in UAE Poultry Farms

Parameter levels for a stochastic model simulating Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) spread across 46 commercial poultry farms in the UAE. The dataset was created by Eihab Fathelrahman and last updated in April 2026. It supports comparing four outbreak scenarios, including a depopulation strategy that reduced simulated outbreak duration to 16 days.

Use Cases

• Calibrating disease spread models based on parameters for farms, birds, and interventions.
• Comparing the effectiveness of movement control, vaccination, and depopulation strategies for epidemic management.
• Conducting sensitivity analysis on model parameters to understand key drivers of outbreak dynamics.

Strengths

• Model parameters are based on data from 46 commercial poultry farms, including parents, broilers, and layers.
• Simulation outputs include concrete metrics like outbreak duration, with results for four distinct intervention scenarios.
• The dataset is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 5.5 KB file size suggests a very limited scope, likely containing only core model parameters.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Parameters derived for use with the customized North American Animal Disease Spread Model (NAADSM) software, tailored for the UAE.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 17:47:53; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Arab Emirates (UAE)