Research Article
African Trypanosomiasis Dynamics: Modelling the Effects of Treatment, Education, and Vector Trapping
Table 2
Description of parameters of model (
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| Parameter | Descriptions |
| | Human birth rate | | Human natural death rate | | Education efficacy | | Immunity waning rate for the recovered human | | Immunity waning rate for the recovered cattle | | Human incubation rate | | Cattle incubation rate | | Vector incubation rate | | Human recovery rate/treatment rate | | Cattle recovery rate/treatment rate | | Rate at which humans become aware of the disease | | Probability that a vector becomes infected after biting infected cattle | | Human death rate due to disease | | Cattle death rate due to disease | | Cattle birth rate | | Cattle natural death rate | | Vector natural death rate | | Vector recruitment rate | | Vector death rate due to trapping | | Probability that infectious vector infects cattle | | Vector biting rate per day | | Probability that infectious vector infects human | | Probability that a vector becomes infected by biting infected human | | Proportion of vector feeding on cattle |
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