The severity of a viral host-vector epidemic
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 13 (4), 791-794
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3212534
Abstract
An analogue of the deterministic pandemic threshold theorem for a measles epidemic is established for a viral host-vector epidemic. The severity of the epidemic is shown to be the unique positive solution of a pair of equations.Keywords
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