Mathematical spatial compartmental epidemic models for the infectious disease cholera

Cholera is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Infections can occur directly via contact with infected people, but also indirectly via infected water. Because of these direct, but especially indirect infections, it is useful to investigate the spread of the disease using mathematical epidemic models. In this report a...

Cholera in Zimbabwe

By the end of December 2008, alarming reports and articles concerning the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe received plenty of international media coverage. By that time nearly 30000 cases of cholera infections and 1600 cholera deaths had been reported. In the first week of January 2009, a System Dynamics simulation model related to this cholera...

Rapport aan den Koning, van de Commissie, benoemd bij zijner Majesteits Besluit van den 16den Julij 1866, No. 68, tot onderzoek van drinkwater in verband met de verspreiding van cholera en tot aanwijzing der middelen ter voorziening in zuiver drinkwater.