Modelling assessment of the different paths of between-farm transmission of avian influenza HPAI in Northern Italy in 2021–2022
We propose a stochastic epidemic model to describe the spread of avian influenza in a network of poultry farms. We consider three main paths of infection transmission between poultry farms: from nearby farms, mainly through airborne diffusion; from farms belonging to the same company, through shared veterinarians, fora...