1 Some pathogens have much greater R0 values than others ie

1. Some pathogens have much greater R₀ values than others (i.e. Measles R₀ = 18 whereas HIV R₀ = 4) What factors/traits might lead a pathogen to have a larger R₀?

2. Some pathogens can be controlled by vaccination to artificially provide immunity to infection. However, vaccinating wildlife is very different from vaccinating humans, and can be difficult. Give two arguments for and two arguments against vaccinating a wildlife population for a disease of concern.

Solution

If R0 is greater than 1, then each present infection causes a couple of new infection. The infection will spread among people, and there may be a virulent disease or epidemic.


As cited vaccinating may be very hard on wild animals but it could greatly reduce ailment and provide a species with a way to what could have been a deadly ailment.
Vaccinating also can help the disorder to prevent spreading doubtlessly saving other species from the same fate.
A problem with this would be that even though the population is vaccinated the threat of disease is still there.
You also can introduce resistance to the vaccine, in order that the disease may want to reoccur within the population despite the fact that the animals had been vaccinated.