This study aimed to develop the stochastic SIR-SI Age-Structured model to estimate the relative  risk  for leptospirosis  mapping specifically for  children  and  adults  in  Malaysia.  This study used model development as it research design. The methodology of this study took  into   account  the  transmission  of  leptospirosis  in  the  stochastic  SIR-SI  model (S=susceptible,    I=infected,   R=recovered   for   human   populations   and   S=susceptible, I=infected   for    vector   populations).   In   this   study,   the   existing   SIR-SI   model   was improvised and  adapted to the leptospirosis transmission. Then, the model was expended to form an alternative  SIR-SI Age-Structured model specifically for children and adults to estimate the relative risk of  leptospirosis for these populations in Malaysia. The data used in this study were weekly data from  epidemiology week 1 to epidemiology week 52 for the.....

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