Agent Based Simulation of Dengue with Wolbachia Intervention
Morgan Ferguson
Elon University
Christa Arangala
Elon University
Karen Yokley
Elon University
Michelle Rave
Elon University
Abstract
Dengue fever is primarily an urban disease of the tropics and is caused by one of four virus serotypes (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, and DEN-4). Symptoms of the virus include high fever, muscle and joint pain, and rash. Since dengue is a mosquito-borne virus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the spread of the disease can be modeled by both agent-based models and equation-based models. The purpose of this study is to compare an agent-based model built in Netlogo against a more traditional equation-based model. In addition, the emerging preventative measure of injecting mosquitoes with the Wolbachia bacterium is incorporated into each model and further explored. Multiple Wolbachia release strategies are presented.
