Clinical course in healthy children is generally mild, with
malaise, itching and fever up to 102°F for 2 to 3 days but
no respiratory or gastrointestinal symptoms.
Complications occur most frequently in immune
compromised persons, pregnant women and adults
(Harpaz et al., 2008). Chickenpox cases in recent time
have increased in Agona West Municipality and
Mathematical models for the dynamics of the chickenpox
with special emphasis in the municipality are uncommon.
Based on this information, the study is focused on using
SEIR model proposed by Anderson and May (1991) to
model the spread and establish the endemicity ofchickenpox in the Municipality.