Table 1: Different Parameters that were Used during the Simulation

Parameter Value
Latent period in days 3
Infectious period in days 10
Recovered or removed after days 15
Incubation period in days 3
Symptomatic period in days 4
Natural birth rate 0.002
Natural death rate 0.001
Virus morbidity 0.63
Spontaneous infection rate 0.000001
Vectored infection rate 0.4
Contact infection rate 0.6
Movement probability 0.4
Immigration rate 0.0000001
Re-Susceptible (temporary immunity) after days 100
Temporary immunity after birth in days 20

After 100 time steps the temporary immunity (Re-Susceptible after days) is lost completely. The parameter values for the infection cycle and the virus morbidity were chosen from the knowledge about the H5N1 human infections. The infection rate (vectored and contact) is supposed to be high in order to simulate a very aggressive (mutated) form of the virus that easily spreads from one individual to another. The other parameters were taken to model the behavior of the state Tyrol best possible.