Research Article

African Trypanosomiasis Dynamics: Modelling the Effects of Treatment, Education, and Vector Trapping

Table 2

Description of parameters of model (4).

ParameterDescriptions

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