Effects of immunization in small-world epidemics

Details Effects of immunization in small-world epidemics Effects of immunization in small-world epidemics

2001-09-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0109273v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

10 pages, 4 figure

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0378-4371(02)00618-0

The propagation of model epidemics on a small-world network under the action of immunization is studied. Although the connectivity in this kind of networks is rather uniform, a vaccination strategy focused on the best connected individuals yields a considerable improvement of disease control. The model exhibits a transition from disease localization to propagation as the disorder of the underlying network grows. As a consequence, for fixed disorder, a threshold immunization level exists above which the disease remains localized.

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