WSEAS Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine
Print ISSN: 1109-9518, E-ISSN: 2224-2902
Volume 10, 2013
Mathematical Modeling of Influenza and a Secondary Bacterial Infection
Authors: , ,
Abstract: In this work we model a pandemic where individuals are first infected with the influenza virus and later contract a secondary bacterial infection. The model uses a modified SIR approach with standard analytical and qualitative analysis. Theoretical questions are investigated concerning the proportion of the population to initially vaccinate for influenza, the proportion of the population to quarantine after being infected with influenza, and how improved treatments of bacterial infections all would play into reducing the net number of deaths.