The geographic range of the rodent hosts was determined from presence data, gathered from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Changes in land-use, human density, vegetation, and other environmental factors over time was determined.

• Data on these factors was gathered from LCLUC, World Clim, NDVI, MODIS

• Data on these factors gathered for three scenarios: the current day and two climate-change futures.

• Changes in the environment would affect the geographic range of the rodents and where humans came into contact with them.

The environmental, land-use, human density, and rodent-presence data was compared to form a Species Distribution Model.

Areas where humans were likely to come into contact with rodents were marked as hotspots. Changes in where hotspots occurred could be seen by comparing the present-day to the future climate-change scenarios.