A mathematical model for understanding the spread of nipah fever epidemic in Bangladesh

Author

Biswas, M. Haider Ali ; Haque, M. Mohidul ; Duvvuru, Gomanth

Author_Institution

Math. Discipline, Khulna Univ., Khulna, Bangladesh

fYear

2015

fDate

3-5 March 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

In this paper, a mathematical model for the nipah virus (NiV) infections, commonly known as “nipah fever” in Bangladesh is proposed. The host-pathogen interaction of NiV infection in terms of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is studied. The aim is to investigate the disease propagation and control strategy of NiV infections. The behavior of the dynamics of NiV infections as well as the optimal control strategy has been studied in vein of optimal control theory and the results are presented with an illustration by the numerical simulations.

Keywords

diseases; epidemics; medical control systems; nonlinear differential equations; optimal control; Bangladesh; NiV infection; disease control strategy; disease propagation; host-pathogen interaction; mathematical model; nipah fever epidemic spread; nipah virus infection; nonlinear ODE; optimal control strategy; ordinary differential equations; Diseases; Mathematical model; Numerical models; Optimal control; Pollution measurement; Sociology; Statistics; Mathematical modeling; NiV infections; Numerical application; Optimal control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), 2015 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dubai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6064-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093861

Filename

7093861