Research Article
Optimal (Control of) Intervention Strategies for Malaria Epidemic in Karonga District, Malawi
Table 3
Parameters variables of the malaria model.
| Symbol | Description |
| | Recruitment rate of individuals by birth | | Proportion of exposed immigrants into exposed class | | Proportion of people migrating into Karonga District | | Per capita natural death rate of humans | | Per capita natural death rate of mosquitoes | | Per capita disease induced death rate for humans | | Progression rate of humans from exposed state to the infectious state | | Probability that a bite results in transmission of infection to human | | Probability that a bite results in transmission of the parasite from an infectious human to the susceptible mosquitoes | | Biting rate of mosquito | | Force of infection for susceptible humans to exposed individuals | | Force of infection for susceptible mosquitoes to exposed mosquito class | | Per capita rate of recovery with temporary immunity | | Proportion of spontaneous individual recovery | | Per capita rate of loss immunity | | Progression of exposed mosquitoes into infected mosquitoes |
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