Research Article
Fractional-Order Derivative Model of Rift Valley Fever in Urban Peridomestic Cycle
Table 2
Parameters and their description.
| Parameter | Description | Value per day | Source |
| | Birth rate in human | 0.0015 | [8] | | Birth rate in mosquitoes | 0.01 | Estimated | | Adequate contact rate: human to mosquito | 0.375 | [7] | | Adequate contact rate: mosquito to human | 0.245 | Estimated | | 1/(incubation period of mosquitoes in days) | 1/8 | [9] | | 1/(incubation period of human in days) | 1/6 | [9] | | 1/(life span of mosquitoes in days) | 1/60 | [9] | | Natural death rate in human | 0.000042 | [23] | | Rate of vertical transmission | 0.05 | [8] | | Disease-induced death rate in human | 0.01 | [7] | | 1/(infectious period of human in days) | 1/7 | [9] |
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