Season of death, pathogen persistence and wildlife behaviour alter number of anthrax secondary infections from environmental reservoirs.

An important part of infectious disease management is predicting factors that influence disease outbreaks, such as , the number of secondary infections arising from an infected individual. Estimating is particularly challenging for environmentally transmitted pathogens given time lags between cases and subsequent infections. Here, we calculated for infections arising from anthrax carcass sites in Etosha National Park, Namibia.