Modeling West Nile Virus transmission in birds and humans: Advantages of using a cellular automata approach.

ABSTRACT: In Canada, the periodic circulation of West Nile Virus (WNV) is difficult to predict and, beyond climatic factors, appears to be related to the migratory movements of infected birds from the southern United States. This hypothesis has not yet been explored in a spatially distributed model. The main objective of this work was to develop a spatially explicit dynamic model for the transmission of WNV in Canada, that allows us to explore non-climate related hypotheses associated with WNV transmission. A Cellular Automata (CA) approach for multiple hosts (birds and humans) is used for a test region in eastern Ontario, Canada. The tool is designed to explore the role of host and vector spatial heterogeneity, host migration, and vector feeding preferences. We developed a spatialized compartmental

SUBMITTER: Cisse B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10847944 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature