Simulating the Transmission of Foot-And-Mouth Disease Among Mobile Herds in the Far North Region, Cameroon

The agents represent mobile pastoralists that have herds consisting of 200 animals. The risk of disease transmission increaseswhen agents are in close proximity, for examplewhen sharing common grazing areas or transhumance routes. To represent the risk of transmission due to proximity we use a bu er with a fixed radius for all agents for the entire year. We change the bu er size to explore di erent scenarios of the geographic extent of contact among agents through unrecorded animal movements, shared grazing areas, human movements, and possible environmental transmission.