Solution

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The law of mass action assigns infection rate , death rate , and vaccination rate . Vaccination consumes a susceptible animal and produces a vaccinated one while leaving the triggering infected animal present. In dimensional time ,
All compartment counts remain nonnegative. Adding the equations gives ; deaths are retained in the bookkeeping compartment rather than removed from that conserved count. There is no recovery class of live immune survivors in the infection reaction: in this particular model every animal that becomes infected ultimately dies.

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