🌡️ Modeling Environmental Drivers: The SIR–SI Framework for Vector-Borne Disease
The Susceptible–Infected–Recovered model for humans coupled with a Susceptible–Infected model for mosquitoes (SIR–SI) is a foundational compartmental framework in mathematical epidemiology for studying vector-borne infectious diseases such as malaria. The model explicitly captures the bidirectional transmission dynamics between human hosts and mosquito vectors. A key extension of this framework integrates environmental drivers—most notably temperature and … Read more