Simulates the spread of typhoid fever in Sub-Saharan Africa over a one year period

Dependencies

• numpy
• scipy
• matplotlib

You can install these using pip:

pip install numpy scipy matplotlib

Usage

• Run the simulate_diff.py script to perform the simulation and plot the results:

1. Create the data by running python3 src/data.py, this creates a data.txt file which you can then read from.
2. Run python3 src/simulate_diff.py This will display a plot showing the number of susceptible, infected, and recovered individuals over time.

Result

Contributing

This is just a simple project I dared to work on after several days of Tyhpoid fever lol. Submit a PR if you're inspired enough.

Learn

To learn more about the SIR model and disease modeling in general, you might find the following resources helpful:

• Compartmental models in epidemiology - Wikipedia
• The SIR epidemic model - Learning Scientific Programming with Python