Ross and malaria (1911)

Nicolas Bacaër ()
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Chapter Chapter 12 in A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics, 2011, pp 65-69 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In 1911 the British medical doctor Ronald Ross, who had already received the 1902 Nobel prize for his work on malaria, studied a system of differential equations modelling the spread of this disease. He showed that malaria can persist only if the number of mosquitoes is above a certain threshold. Therefore it is not necessary to kill all mosquitoes to eradicate malaria – it is enough to kill just a certain fraction. Similar epidemic models were later developed by Kermack and McKendrick.

Keywords: Nobel Prize; Infected Human; Transmission Probability; Mosquito Population; Indian Medical (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_12

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