The Modelling of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in Contaminated Environments in Bangkok, Thailand

Table 1

Definitions of parameters in HFMD model.

Parameter	Definitions (unit)	Value	References
	Birth rate (/day)	252	Estimated
	The natural death rate and the rate at which children become adults	0.000267	Assumption
	The transmission rate between and	0.229	fitting
	The transmission rate between and	0.492	fitting
	The average incubation period (day)	2.75	fitting
	The rate of progression to hospitalized individuals (/day)	0.749	fitting
	The fraction of those becoming infectious with symptoms	0.421	fitting
	The fraction of infectious individuals being hospitalized	0.967	fitting
	The recovery rate of infectious patients with symptoms (/day)	0.021	fitting
	The recovery rate of hospitalized individuals (/day)	0.782	fitting
	The recovery rate of infectious without symptoms (/day)	0.318	fitting
	The rate from recovered to again susceptible (/day)	1/100	[14]
	The virus shedding from infectious individuals with symptoms (/day)	457.504	fitting
	The virus shedding from infectious individuals without symptoms (/day)	22.443	fitting
	The indirect transmission rate (/day)	1.0 × 10^−6	fitting
	The clearance pathogen rate (/day)	698.077	fitting