Forward-backward and period doubling bifurcations in a discrete epidemic model with vaccination and limited medical
Yu-Jhe Huang1, Jonq Juang2, Tai-Yi Kuo2
1Department of Applied Mathematics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, 300, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC. yjhuang@nycu.edu.tw.
Abstract:
A discrete epidemic model with vaccination and limited medical resources is proposed to understand its underlying dynamics. The model induces a nonsmooth two dimensional map that exhibits a surprising array of dynamical behavior including the phenomena of the forward-backward bifurcation and period doubling route to chaos with feasible parameters in an invariant region. We demonstrate, among other things, that the model generates the above described phenomena as the transmission rate or the basic reproduction number of the disease gradually increases provided that the immunization rate is low, the vaccine failure rate is high and the medical resources are limited. Finally, the numerical simulations are provided to illustrate our main results.
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