Meteorologically Driven Simulations of Dengue Epidemics in San Juan, PR (original) (raw)
Fig 1
Conceptual diagram of modeled dengue ecology.
Suns bordering an arrow indicate that the process is temperature dependent and a habitat/container symbol bordering an arrow indicates the process is habitat/precipitation dependent. Water is added to a habitat through precipitation or manual filling and is lost due to spilling and evaporation which is regulated by temperature. After hatching, the mosquitoes develop through their larval and pupal stages before emerging as adults. The adults blood feed, develop eggs, and then lay them in a water habitat. Upon blood feeding, adults can contract the virus from an infectious human. Those mosquitoes can then expose a susceptible human to the virus during a subsequent blood meal.