Dengue epidemics and human mobility

D BARMAK; C O DORSO; M J OTERO; H G SOLARI

PHYSICAL REVIEW E

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Lugar: New York; Año: 2011 vol. 84 p. 1 - 11

1539-3755

   In this work we explore the effects of human mobility on the dispersion of a vector borne disease. We combinean already presented stochastic model for dengue with a simple representation of the daily motion of humans ona schematic city of 20 × 20 blocks with 100 inhabitants in each block. The pattern of motion of the individuals isdescribed in terms of complex networks in which links connect different blocks and the link length distributionis in accordance with recent findings on human mobility. It is shown that human mobility can turn out to be themain driving force of the disease dispersal.