CA-Based Model for Hantavirus Disease between Host Rodents

A new mathematical model to simulate the hantavirus dis- ease between a population of rodents is introduced. It is based on the use of a two-dimensional cellular automaton where the cells stand for uniform portions of the terrain and the state of each cell can be either empty (without any rodent), susceptible (there is only one susceptible rodent placed in it) or infected (there is one infected rodent in the cell). Simulations about the evolution of the different classes of cells and the number of susceptible and infected rodents are obtained and analyzed.