The virus variation model by considering the degree-dependent spreading rate

Dun Han, Mei Sun and Dandan Li

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2015, vol. 433, issue C, 42-50

Abstract: Considering the difference of different individuals’ physical quality and antibody, this paper investigates the epidemic spreading model with the virus mutation. By using the mean-field theory, the epidemic threshold with degree-dependent spreading rate can be theoretical drawn. According to the numerical simulations, we can obtain that the average infected virus version in the BA network is less than the ER network. In addition, if the effective spreading rate is either small or large enough, the average virus version of the whole infected individuals will reduce. However, when the spreading rate takes some proper values, the average infected virus version can greatly increase. Finally, we study how the different initial infected nodes influence the average virus version of the whole infected individuals. The numerical results show that the greater of the initial infected degree, the smaller of the average virus version of the whole infected individuals.

Keywords: Virus mutation; Epidemic threshold; Degree-dependent spreading rate; Infected virus version (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.03.077

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