Table 1.

Quantitative attributes of the diseases considered in the study.

	Disease	Acronym	Fatality rate (%)	Average basic reproductive number	Average serial interval (days)	Incubation period (days)	Survival outside host (days)
i		g	1	2	3	4	5
1	Bird flu	BFlu	59.00	2.00	3.00	3.0	30.0
2	Chicken pox	CPox	0.00	7.50	14.00	14.0	2.0
3	Chikungunya	Chi	0.40	4.00	23.00	2.5	–
4	Dengue fever	Den	5.00	3.00	16.00	7.0	63.0
5	Ebola	Ebo	75.00	2.50	15.30	11.4	50.0
6	Hepatitis B	HepB	0.75	6.00	25.00	75.0	28.0
7	HIV	HIV	2.10	3.50	–	60.0	42.0
8	HIV—untreated	HIV Un	80.00	3.50	–	60.0	42.0
9	Marburg virus disease	Mar	25.00	1.60	9.00	6.0	21.0
10	Measles	Mea	0.20	15.00	11.70	11.0	0.1
11	MERS	MERS	27.00	0.50	7.60	5.0	3.0
12	Mumps	Mum	0.01	5.50	18.00	17.0	0.3
13	Norovirus	Nor	0.08	3.70	1.86	1.5	24.0
14	Polio	Pol	22.00	6.00	–	13.0	160.0
15	Rabies	Rab	0.00	1.60	–	40.0	6.0
16	Rabies—untreated	Rab Un	100.00	1.60	–	40.0	6.0
17	Rhinovirus	Rhi	0.00	3.70	7.50	3.0	1.0
18	Rotavirus	Rot	0.00	3.50	7.00	1.5	60.0
19	Rubella	Rub	0.00	6.50	18.30	17.7	0.9
20	SARS	SARS	11.00	3.50	10.00	8.0	9.0
21	Seasonal flu	SFlu	0.01	1.30	3.30	2.0	2.0
22	Smallpox	Sma	15.00	6.00	17.70	14.0	1.5