id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-000720-5b936n3g Nannyonga, Betty The Dynamics, Causes and Possible Prevention of Hepatitis E Outbreaks 2012-07-24 .txt text/plain 4405 250 57 The models designed are fit to data from the Kitgum outbreak, to estimate the basic reproduction number and to relate them to the level of contamination of the environment. Susceptible individuals without bore hole access become infected with the Hepatitis E virus at a rate bc, where b is the transmission rate of HEV from the contaminated environment c, to the human. To estimate model parameters and determine the critical level of control needed to eradicate the epidemic, the model described by the equations in (7) is fit to the data collected during the Kitgum outbreak ( Figure 1 ) During the invasion phase of HEV, the prevalence is approximately Under the above assumption, equations (7) are rewritten to incorporate the malaria dynamics in equation (11) where j is a parameter that models change the increase (or decrease) in susceptibility to Hepatitis E of malaria infected individuals [12] . ./cache/cord-000720-5b936n3g.txt ./txt/cord-000720-5b936n3g.txt