Epidemic spreading of interacting diseases with activity of nodes reshapes the critical threshold

Chongjun Fan, Yang Jin (), Liang-An Huo (), Chen Liu () and Yunpeng Yang ()
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Chongjun Fan: Business School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China
Yang Jin: Business School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China
Liang-An Huo: Business School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China
Chen Liu: Business School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China
Yunpeng Yang: Business School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2017, vol. 28, issue 01, 1-12

Abstract: In this paper, based on susceptible–infected–susceptible (SIS) scheme, we introduce a framework that allows us to describe the spreading dynamics of two interacting diseases with active nodes. Different from previous studies, the two different diseases, propagating concurrently on the same population, can interact with each other by modifying their transmission rates. Meanwhile, according to certain probabilities, each node on the complex networks rotates between active state and inactive state. Based on heterogeneous mean-field approach, we analyze the epidemic thresholds of the two diseases and compute the temporal evolution characterizing the spreading dynamics. In addition, we validate these theoretical predictions by numerical simulations with phase diagrams. Results show that the secondary thresholds for the two opposite scenarios (mutual enhancement scenario and mutual impairment scenario) are different. We also find that the value of critical threshold and the final size of spreading dynamics are reduced as the node activity rate decreases.

Keywords: Interacting diseases; critical threshold; node activity; spreading dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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