Track: Undergraduate Student Paper Competition

Abstract

Noroviruses are a group of related viruses that are highly contagious. Norovirus is a food-borne disease member of a group of viruses called caliciviruses, known previously as Norwalk-like viruses. The human can be infected with norovirus from an infected person, contaminated food or water, or by touching contaminated surfaces. In this paper, we propose a mathematical epidemic model to describe the dynamics of Norovirus infection in the human population from contaminated and its dynamics was developed. In this paper, we propose a mathematical epidemic model to describe the dynamics of Norovirus infection in the human population from contaminated. We estimate the basic reproduction number to evaluate the magnitude of the outbreak and the effectiveness of the medical and behavioral therapies required for control. Norovirus is transmitted by contaminated food products even if the Norovirus bacteria population in the environment is very small. The Norovirus can effectively control by removing contaminated food products.