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The SIR model tries to model influenza epidemics. Here, we try to medel the spreading of the swine flu. | |||
* According to the [http://www.cdc.gov/ CDC Centers of Disease Control and Prevention]: "Adults shed influenza virus from the day before symptoms begin through 5-10 days after illness onset. However, the amount of virus shed, and presumably infectivity, decreases rapidly by 3-5 days after onset in an experimental human infection model." So, here we set <math>\gamma=1/7</math> as the recovery rate. This means, on average an infected person sheds the virus for 7 days. | |||
* In [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2715422 Modeling influenza epidemics and pandemics: insights into the future of swine flu (H1N1)] the authors estimate the reproduction rate <math>R_0</math> of the virus to be about 2. For the SIR model this means: | |||
the reproduction rate <math>R_0</math> for influenza is equal to the infection rate of the strain (<math>\beta</math>) multiplied by the duration of the infectious period (<math>1/\gamma</math>), i.e. | |||
:<math>\beta = R_0\cdot \gamma</math> | |||
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Revision as of 11:09, 10 August 2009
The SIR model tries to model influenza epidemics. Here, we try to medel the spreading of the swine flu.
- According to the CDC Centers of Disease Control and Prevention: "Adults shed influenza virus from the day before symptoms begin through 5-10 days after illness onset. However, the amount of virus shed, and presumably infectivity, decreases rapidly by 3-5 days after onset in an experimental human infection model." So, here we set [math]\displaystyle{ \gamma=1/7 }[/math] as the recovery rate. This means, on average an infected person sheds the virus for 7 days.
- In Modeling influenza epidemics and pandemics: insights into the future of swine flu (H1N1) the authors estimate the reproduction rate [math]\displaystyle{ R_0 }[/math] of the virus to be about 2. For the SIR model this means:
the reproduction rate [math]\displaystyle{ R_0 }[/math] for influenza is equal to the infection rate of the strain ([math]\displaystyle{ \beta }[/math]) multiplied by the duration of the infectious period ([math]\displaystyle{ 1/\gamma }[/math]), i.e.
- [math]\displaystyle{ \beta = R_0\cdot \gamma }[/math]
