Create a new Infector

 

Figure 1: The Infector Icon looks similar to the New Disease Icon but contains a capital letter 'I' in the lower right hand corner.

Click on the new infector icon (black square with the health symbol and the letter I)

  1. Name it (e.g., "CubaInfector"), under DiseaseName: "ExperimentalDisease"
     
  2. Under country select the location you want to infect (e.g.,  Cuba). You can infect at the country level, state or province level or even at the county level depending on the resolution of the graph you are using. In the case of Cuba, only country level is selected (see Figure 2.)
     
  3. Click on the Scenario to open it in the Resource set
     
  4. drag the CubaInfector from Decorators into the Scenario (open it to see it)
     
  5. In the resource set click on the infector SI Infector ExperimentalDisease to edit it. Your disease model may be SI, SIR, SIER, etc but in all cases you only need an SI infector (as this base class will add infectious people to seed any model.
     
  6. Click on Properties to open the Properties Editor and double click on the Infector in the Resource Set under your scenario. This will open an editor where you can confirm the location to be infected and the number of infectious people to start with.
     
  7. Add additional infectors for other locations as desired following the procedure above.
     
Figure 2: Creating an Infector for Cuba. Here we are selecting a country level node. Note the location ID (CUB).

save your work at this point by hitting <ctrl>S