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- Title
Effect of Predators of Juvenile Rodents on the Spread of the Hantavirus Epidemic.
- Authors
Camelo-Neto, G.; Silva, Ana T. C.; Giuggioli, L.; Kenkre, V. M.
- Abstract
Effects of predators of juvenile mice on the spread of the Hantavirus are analyzed in the context of a recently proposed model. Two critical values of the predation probability are identified. When the smaller of them is exceeded, the hantavirus infection vanishes without extinguishing the mice population. When the larger is exceeded, the entire mice population vanishes. These results suggest the possibility of control of the spread of the epidemic by introducing predators in areas of mice colonies in a suitable way so that such control does not kill all the mice but lowers the epidemic spread.
- Subjects
PREDATORY animals; PREDATION; LABORATORY rodents; HANTAVIRUS diseases; VIRUS diseases; HANTAVIRUSES; EPIDEMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY
- Publication
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2008, Vol 70, Issue 1, p179
- ISSN
0092-8240
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11538-007-9247-4