“…From the Council of Agriculture, Taiwan, we obtained the complete poultry farm census dataset, established in 2017 and based on an islandwide survey that used remote satellite imaging technology conducted by the Taiwan Agriculture Research Institute. The poultry farm outbreaks dataset was obtained from the surveillance system established by the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Taiwan, as described previously ( 20 , 25 ). During 2015–2017, a total of 1,223 poultry farm outbreaks were reported and laboratory confirmed in Taiwan (1,003 outbreak poultry farms in 2015, 38 in 2016, and 182 in 2017).…”