The math model above shows an example of a carrier, (red) who infects three females with the syphilis virus. Some of the symptoms of syphilis include flu like complaints, and believe this disease is the common cold, having no clue they ended up catching the disease syphilis. By getting no treatment, and the victim believing it's a cold that would eventually go away, they end up in the late stages of syphilis where the disease isn't curable, therefore, spreading the disease to others. It then repeats itself, as seen in the model above, developing the same symptoms. This diagram then shows an example of how people of our society tend to ignore the symptoms of syphilis and, therefore, are not aware of the disease.
B: A Graph of the Syphilis Outbreak in the Navajo Nation
This graph shows the Syphilis outbreak in New Mexico and on the Navajo Reservation. The U.S. Total Rate in 2001 was 2.2 an average per 100,000 people in the U.S. As you can tell the highest total rate in the U.S. are the Native Americans with an average of 3.3.This source was taken from the New Mexico Department of Health and it shows that syphilis is on the rise.
C: Starlogo Code
Turtle Procedure:
setup
ct
crt 30
ask-turtles [setshape termite-shape setc red fd 10]
end
to patch-setup
repeat 100 [seth random 260 jump random 100 stamp yellow]
repeat 100 [seth random 100
jump random 50 stamp yellow]
end
to wiggle
fd 3
rt random 50
lt random 50
end
to search for victim
if pc = yellow
[stamp red jump 15 stop]
wiggle
end
Observer Procedure:
to setup
ct
cp
crt 30
ask-turtles [setc red fd 10]
ask-turtles [patch-setup]
end
to patch-setup
ask-turtles [setheading random 200 jump random 300 stamp yellow]
ask-turtles [setheading random 150 jump random 100 stamp yellow]
end
