Modeling spatial spread of west nile virus and impact of directional dispersal of birds.

Math Biosci Eng

Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada.

Published: January 2006

A patchy model for the spatial spread of West Nile virus is formulated and analyzed. The basic reproduction number is calculated and com- pared for different long-range dispersal patterns of birds, and simulations are carried out to demonstrate discontinuous or jump spatial spread of the virus when the birds' long-range dispersal dominates the nearest neighborhood interaction and diffusion of mosquitoes and birds.

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