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+    <title>ADSM</title>
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+    <h2> Overview </h2>
+    <p>The Animal Disease Spread Model (ADSM) is a software application that simulates the spread of highly contagious animal diseases in a susceptible population. Applied control measures can influence the disease outbreak. ADSM features upgraded technology and a redesigned user interface combined with the trusted logic of NAADSM </p>
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+    <h2>Applications</h2>
+    <li> Evaluate proposed disease control strategies for planning and policy decisions. </li>
+        <p></p>
+    <li> Provide “what if” scenarios for outbreak planning exercises. </li>
+        <p></p>
+    <li> Estimate consequences as part of the risk analysis process. </li>
+        <p></p>
+    <li> Assess the potential economic impacts of disease and associated control measures. </li>
+        <p></p>
+    <li> Provide input for emergency preparedness and surveillance plans and activities. </li>
+        <p></p>
+    <li> Create simple scenarios for an educational setting or complex scenarios for policy research. </li>
+        <p></p>
+    <li> Communicate principles of epidemiology and disease control. </li>
+        <p></p>
+    <li> Support researchers who incorporate disease modeling in their work. </li>
+        <p></p>
+    <li> Explore questions related to resources needed in the event of an outbreak. </li>
+        <p></p>
+    <li> Offer outreach and training in the use of disease models in general, and of ADSM in particular, to scientific and veterinary communities. </li>
+        <p></p>
+
+    <h2>Key Characteristics</h2>
+    <li> ADSM is herd based. Disease manifestation and transmission are represented at the level of a herd/flock of animals, rather than at the individual animal level. </li>
+    <p></p>
+    <li> ADSM is a state transition model. Each infected herd transitions from a susceptible state to and infected state and back to an immune state. </li>
+    <p></p>
+    <li> ADSM is a stochastic simulation. It mimics the random processes responsible for disease spread. Each simulated outbreak is the result of a unique series of random events and processes. When analyzed together, many simulated outbreaks represent a range of possible outcomes, given a set of shared assumption. </li>
+    <p></p>
+    <li> ADSM simulates spatial and temporal aspects of disease spread. Each herd in a scenario is assigned a physical location and disease progression occurs in daily time steps. </li>
+    <p></p>
+    <a href="examples_page.html">Examples Page</a>
+</body>
+</html>
+<!-- ## Overview
+
+The Animal Disease Spread Model (ADSM) is a software application that simulates the spread of highly contagious animal diseases in a susceptible population. Applied control measures can influence the disease outbreak. ADSM features upgraded technology and a redesigned user interface combined with the trusted logic of NAADSM.
+
+## Applications
+
+•	Evaluate proposed disease control strategies for planning and policy decisions.
+
+•	Provide “what if” scenarios for outbreak planning exercises.
+
+•	Estimate consequences as part of the risk analysis process.
+
+•	Assess the potential economic impacts of disease and associated control measures.
+
+•	Provide input for emergency preparedness and surveillance plans and activities.
+
+•	Create simple scenarios for an educational setting or complex scenarios for policy research.
+
+•	Communicate principles of epidemiology and disease control.
+
+•	Support researchers who incorporate disease modeling in their work.
+
+•	Explore questions related to resources needed in the event of an outbreak.
+
+•	Offer outreach and training in the use of disease models in general, and of ADSM in particular, to scientific and veterinary communities.
+
+
+## Key Characteristics
+
+•	ADSM is herd based. Disease manifestation and transmission are represented at the level of a herd/flock of animals, rather than at the individual animal level.
+
+•	ADSM is a state transition model. Each infected herd transitions from a susceptible state to and infected state and back to an immune state.
+
+•	ADSM is a stochastic simulation. It mimics the random processes responsible for disease spread. Each simulated outbreak is the result of a unique series of random events and processes. When analyzed together, many simulated outbreaks represent a range of possible outcomes, given a set of shared assumption.
+
+•	ADSM simulates spatial and temporal aspects of disease spread. Each herd in a scenario is assigned a physical location and disease progression occurs in daily time steps.
+-->
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