Author : Fenny J. Narsingani 1
Date of Publication :20th June 2016
Abstract: Inherent inter disciplinarily of mathematical biology necessarily brings about two contrasting approaches. On one hand, there are mathematicians that have a taste for biology and develop analytically tractable models for the sake of the analysis itself On the other hand, there are theoretically inclined biologists who use relatively simple models in support of their empirical findings or develop very complex models, but also systems of dozens of differential equations, to simulate complex biological systems .The niche in between these two worlds is the playground for mathematical biologists or biomathematicians who develop and analyze and/or numerically simulate relatively sophisticated mathematical models to primarily address a biological question, yet with the attendant aim to get from these models as much as possible also mathematically. In this study the patients suspected as well as confirmed cases of swine flu from month of July 2013 to March 2014. A complete data of all the patients visiting these OPDs and swine Flu wards had been kept on the daily basis right from the month July. Each and every patient visiting either swine flu OPD or swine flu ward, who are suspected clinically H1N1 positive were categorized in three categories according to the guidelines provided by Ministry of Health and Family welfare in August, 2009
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