2005/12/13 by G. Camelo-Neto, Camelo-Neto, G., Ana T.C. Silva +7
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Fire effects on ecosystems #Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research #Viral Infections and Vectors #cond-mat.stat-mech #q-bio.PE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0512030
13 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physica A
arxiv created 2005/12/13 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
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.