Scientific Reports (Sep 2023)

Novel insights for a nonlinear deterministic-stochastic class of fractional-order Lassa fever model with varying kernels

  • Saima Rashid,
  • Shazia Karim,
  • Ali Akgül,
  • Abdul Bariq,
  • S. K. Elagan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42106-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 37

Abstract

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Abstract Lassa fever is a hemorrhagic virus infection that is usually spread by rodents. It is a fatal infection that is prevalent in certain West African countries. We created an analytical deterministic-stochastic framework for the epidemics of Lassa fever employing a collection of ordinary differential equations with nonlinear solutions to identify the influence of propagation processes on infected development in individuals and rodents, which include channels that are commonly overlooked, such as ecological emergent and aerosol pathways. The findings shed light on the role of both immediate and subsequent infectiousness via the power law, exponential decay and generalized Mittag-Leffler kernels. The scenario involves the presence of a steady state and an endemic equilibrium regardless of the fundamental reproduction number, $$\Re _{0}<1$$ ℜ 0 < 1 , making Lassa fever influence challenging and dependent on the severity of the initial sub-populations. Meanwhile, we demonstrate that the stochastic structure has an exclusive global positive solution via a positive starting point. The stochastic Lyapunov candidate approach is subsequently employed to determine sufficient requirements for the existence and uniqueness of an ergodic stationary distribution of non-negative stochastic simulation approaches. We acquire the particular configuration of the random perturbation associated with the model’s equilibrium $$\Re _{0}^{s}<1$$ ℜ 0 s < 1 according to identical environments as the presence of a stationary distribution. Ultimately, modeling techniques are used to verify the mathematical conclusions. Our fractional and stochastic findings exhibit that when all modes of transmission are included, the impact of Lassa fever disease increases. The majority of single dissemination pathways are less detrimental with fractional findings; however, when combined with additional spread pathways, they boost the Lassa fever stress.