A Multiscale Model for the World’s First Parasitic Disease Targeted for Eradication: Guinea Worm Disease

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Graphs of numerical solutions of model system (1) showing the evolution with time of (a) population of infected humans (), (b) population of infected copepods (), (c) population of Guinea worm eggs in the physical water environment, and (d) population of Guinea worm larvae in the physical water environment, for different values of the rate at which an emerging fertilized female worm from a single infected human host excretes eggs into the physical water environment : , , and .

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