Abstract

  This paper analyzes the 2019 measles epidemic in the United States through a developed mathematical model. We simulated our model in MATLAB using differential equations and found that in vaccinated populations, viral spread was severely hindered when compared to populations that were unvaccinated. The lack of viral prevalence was backed up by the basic reproduction number being less than one (R0 = 0.03976).

Keywords: Mathematical Modeling; Measles; MATLAB

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Citation

Citation: Durgesh N Sinha.,et al. “Mathematical Modeling of the 2019 Measles Outbreak on US Population".Acta Scientific Microbiology 3.4 (2020): 209-214.

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Copyright: © 2020 Durgesh N Sinha.,., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.