Table 2.

Main transmission mode of the diseases considered in the study.

	Disease	Acronym	Animal–human	Airborne droplet	Bites	Body fluids	Sexual contact	Surfaces	Faecal–oral
i		h	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	Bird flu	BFlu	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Chicken pox	CPox	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
3	Chikungunya	Chi	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
4	Dengue fever	Den	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
5	Ebola	Ebo	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
6	Hepatitis B	HepB	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
7	HIV	HIV	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
8	HIV—untreated	HIV Un	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
9	Marburg virus disease	Mar	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
10	Measles	Mea	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
11	MERS	MERS	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
12	Mumps	Mum	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
13	Norovirus	Nor	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
14	Polio	Pol	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
15	Rabies	Rab	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
16	Rabies—untreated	Rab Un	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
17	Rhinovirus	Rhi	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
18	Rotavirus	Rot	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
19	Rubella	Rub	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
20	SARS	SARS	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
21	Seasonal flu	SFlu	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
22	Smallpox	Sma	0	1	0	0	0	0	0