Effects of isolation and slaughter strategies in different species on emerging zoonoses

• Published in: Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE Vol. 14; no. 5-6; pp. 1119 - 1140
• Main Authors: Cui, Jing-An, Chen, Fangyuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States AIMS Press 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Animal Culling; Animals; Animals, Domestic; Animals, Wild; Basic Reproduction Number; Birds; China; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - epidemiology; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - prevention & control; Disease Reservoirs; domestic animals; Humans; Influenza in Birds - epidemiology; Influenza in Birds - prevention & control; Influenza in Birds - therapy; isolation; Models, Statistical; Prevalence; Risk; slaughter; species; strategy; wildlife; zoonoses; Zoonoses - epidemiology; Zoonoses - prevention & control; Zoonoses - therapy
• ISSN: 1551-0018
• DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2017058

Zoonosis is the kind of infectious disease transmitting among different species by zoonotic pathogens. Different species play different roles in zoonoses. In this paper, we established a basic model to describe the zoonotic pathogen transmission from wildlife, to domestic animals, to humans. Then we put three strategies into the basic model to control the emerging zoonoses. Three strategies are corresponding to control measures of isolation, slaughter or similar in wildlife, domestic animals and humans respectively. We analyzed the effects of these three strategies on control reproductive numbers and equilibriums and we took avian influenza epidemic in China as an example to show the impacts of the strategies on emerging zoonoses in different areas at beginning.