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In this model, we considered the worst situation－all bees are infected by Nosema; that is, there are only two stages－the latent and the infected stage.
The result shows quite a cheerful consequence that if the infection rate(the ratio of bees in infected stage to bees in latent stage) is under 80 percentage, the colony is curable by feeding our capsule.
Figure1: epidemic model picture. X-direction represents infection to latent ratio; y-direction represents capsule concentration; z-direction represents survival rate. As assumed, the colony with survival rate below ten is considered extinct.
