MODELLING THE TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS OF MALARIA USING SEIRS MODEL

📄 Project Abstract

Human beings are at constant risk of infectious diseases. No human can be exempted from the menace of an epidemic disease. Malaria, a common para- sitic disease in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America, is caused by the genus Plasmodium. There are several known species, however, humans are often a_x000B_ected through the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito vector. Global esti- mates of malaria show 80 percent cases from Africa, and malaria is responsible for more than a million annual death in a_x000B_ected developing countries(WHO, 2012). Among children under _x000C_ve years of age, malaria seems to be the lead- ing cause of mortality, with similar incidence among pregnant women (WHO, 2012). In pregant women,severe malaria cases have been reported to cause ma- ternal death, still birth, severe anaemia, congenital malformations and low birth weights (WHO, 2012).