AUTHOR: Michael Goldberg
Brown University - Ramachandran and Smith Labs
megoldberg2@gmail.com
20 February, 2014

This is a README file describing the outbreak data referenced in the Smith et al. paper. These data are available in the file SmithEtAl_outbreakdata.xlsx. 

Below is a list of the column headers and a brief description:

UID:	A unique numerical ID assigned to each outbreak
Disease:	The disease name, as listed in GIDEON
Country:	The nation where the outbreak occurred, as listed in GIDEON
Year:	The year of the outbreak, or the first year if a range of years was given
Total Cases:	Total number of cases for the given outbreak. (Outbreaks with no case data listed have a value of 9999.)
Transmission Type:	0=Non-vector borne, 1=Vector Borne
Host Type:	0=Zoonotic, 1=Human-specific
Pathogen Taxonomy:	1=bacterium, 2=virus, 3=protozoon, 4=parasite (i.e. helminth), 5=fungus, 6=alga

For more details, please see the manuscript.