Raul Isea¹* and Karl E Lonngren²

¹Fundación Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, Hoyo de la Puerta, Baruta, Venezuela
²Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

*Corresponding Author: Raul Isea, Fundación Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, Hoyo de la Puerta, Baruta, Venezuela.

Received: December 21, 2017; Published: February 13, 2018

DOI: 10.31080/ASMI.2018.01.0025

Citation: Raul Isea and Karl E Lonngren. “Toward an Early Warning System for Dengue, Malaria and Zika in Venezuela”. Acta Scientific Microbiology 1.3 (2018).

Abstract

  The goal of this work is to create an early warning system against the outbreaks of epidemics in Venezuela that allows for the monitoring of possible outbreaks of Dengue, Malaria, and Zika based on the epidemiological data collected from epidemiological report in a Geographic Information System. In order to do that, the Basic Reproduction Number (R_o ) is used to specify if and when an outbreak occurs. The results will indicate if there is an epidemic of Dengue and Zika in Venezuela. However, at the present time, Malaria has reached the epidemic stage in Venezuela as well as in Brazil and Colombia.

Keywords: Geographic Information System; Zika; Malaria; Dengue; Epidemic; Basic Reproduction Number

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