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Dengue in Madeira Island
This is a preprint of a paper whose final and definite form will be published in the volume
Mathematics of Planet Earth that initiates the book series CIM Series in Mathematical Sciences
(CIM-MS) published by Springer. Submitted Oct/2013; Revised 16/July/2014 and 20/Sept/2014;
Accepted 28/Sept/2014.Dengue is a vector-borne disease and 40% of world population is at risk.
Dengue transcends international borders and can be found in tropical and subtropical
regions around the world, predominantly in urban and semi-urban areas. A
model for dengue disease transmission, composed by mutually-exclusive compartments
representing the human and vector dynamics, is presented in this study. The
data is from Madeira, a Portuguese island, where an unprecedented outbreak was
detected on October 2012. The aim of this work is to simulate the repercussions of
the control measures in the fight of the disease