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Modeling The Geographic Spread Of Rabies In China, Jing Chen, Lan Zou, Shigui Ruan
Modeling The Geographic Spread Of Rabies In China, Jing Chen, Lan Zou, Shigui Ruan
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Abstract
In order to investigate how the movement of dogs affects the geographically inter-provincial spread of rabies in Mainland China, we propose a multi-patch model to describe the transmission dynamics of rabies between dogs and humans, in which each province is regarded as a patch. In each patch the submodel consists of susceptible, exposed, infectious, and vaccinated subpopulations of both dogs and humans and describes the spread of rabies among dogs and from infectious dogs to humans. The existence of the disease-free equilibrium is discussed, the basic reproduction number is calculated, and the effect of moving rates of dogs between …