Epidemic spreading on uniform networks with two interacting diseases

Yun Feng, Qingli Fan, Lin Ma and Li Ding

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 393, issue C, 277-285

Abstract: In this paper, we consider a pair of homogeneous diseases spreading concurrently on uniform networks based on the SIS model. A new model describing the transmission process of the interacting diseases is established. The influence of the transmission parameters, the interacting parameter and the initial density value of infected nodes on the epidemic spreading is presented by simulating the transmission process of the proposed model. The mathematical expressions of the conditions among the transmission parameters, the interacting parameter and the network parameter when diseases can exist in the network based on the simplified model are presented. Comparing the transmission process of this interacting model under different intervals of the interacting parameter, it is found that the interacting of the two diseases leads to larger scale prevalence with a relatively larger interacting parameter when the infection breaks out.

Keywords: Epidemic spreading; Interacting diseases; Threshold conditions; SIS model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.08.080

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