Technical report: a study of biting rates of mosquitoes in transmission of dengue disease / Nor Fatin Fazera Ab Rahman

The SIR model for dengue disease transmission is discussed here. The host (human) population is divided into three compartments: susceptible, infected, and recovered. The mosquito population is divided into two compartments : susceptible and infected. The interest here is to derive SIR model to predict the spread of dengue fever disease in Malaysia. SIR model is used to investigate the spread of dengue fever disease due to different biting rates of mosquitoes. The data is obtained from Health Ministry for the year 2010 till 2015. The SIR model are solved by ODESOLVE command from maple software. From the observations, if the values of biting rates are increased, so the susceptible host population are decreased. Then, the number of infected hosts population increases quickly with the increase in biting rates. The spread of dengue transmission due to biting rates of mosquitoes can control if there is high level awareness among people. Other than that, in order to reduce infectives in both host and vector population, the biting rates of mosquitoes can be controlled.