of the host module is based on the Ijara District community-based participatory survey that was conducted as part of the HEALTHY FUTURES project (Bett et al. 2013), and discussion with local experts at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya. For a summary of LRVF host module parameterisation see Supplementary Material. The natural lifespan of the livestock is used for the basal per capita mortality rate, . The same natural mortality rate is assumed for both neonatal and adult livestock. The Maturation rate, , is inversely proportional to the age at which infant livestock is no longer considered neonatal. A frequency dependent (mass action) transmission term is employed since it is expected that the contact structure is generally independent of population size for vector-borne pathogens where vectors far outnumber hosts (Keeling & Rohani 2008). Therefore, using the transmission between neonatal hosts and infectious vectors in the biting stage of the Aedes gonotrophic cycle as an example, the force of infection is defined: with transmission rate where represents the susceptibility of the host, i.e., the probability of becoming infected following a bite from an infectious vector and effectively represents a (temperature dependent) per capita biting rate,
of the host module is based on the Ijara District community-based participatory survey that was conducted as part of the HEALTHY FUTURES project (Bett et al. 2013), and discussion with local experts at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya. For a summary of LRVF host module parameterisation see Supplementary Material. The natural lifespan of the livestock is used for the basal per capita mortality rate, . The same natural mortality rate is assumed for both neonatal and adult livestock. The Maturation rate, , is inversely proportional to the age at which infant livestock is no longer considered neonatal. A frequency dependent (mass action) transmission term is employed since it is expected that the contact structure is generally independent of population size for vector-borne pathogens where vectors far outnumber hosts (Keeling & Rohani 2008). Therefore, using the transmission between neonatal hosts and infectious Aedes vectors in the biting stage of the gonotrophic cycle as an example, the force of infection is defined: with transmission rate where represents the susceptibility of the host, i.e., the probability of becoming infected following a bite from an infectious vector and effectively represents a (temperature dependent) per capita biting rate,