Modeling the Effects of Spatial Heterogeneity and Seasonality on Guinea Worm Disease Transmission

Table 1

Description of model parameters for system (3).

Symbol	Definition	Value	Unit	Source
	Proportion of recovered individuals
	who become susceptible to the disease	0.3	-	Assumed
	Proportion of recovered individuals
	who are at high risk to reinfection	0.9	-	[10]
	Rate of transfer from high risk to
	low risk susceptible population			Assumed
	Rate of transfer from low risk to
	high risk susceptible population	0.009		Assumed
	Proportion of new births in high
	risk susceptible population		-	[10]
	Proportion of new births in low
	risk susceptible population		-	[10]
	Natural mortality rate for humans			[11]
	Average infectious period		month	Assumed
	Modification factor		-	Assumed
	Human birth rate			Assumed
	Averaged environment–to–host
	transmission			Fitting
	Averaged incubation rate			[12]
	Averaged parasite shedding rate			Fitting
	Parasite death rate			[6]