Title of article :
Who should wear mask against airborne infections? Altering the contact network for controlling the spread of contagious diseases
Author/Authors :
Pedro Schimit، نويسنده , , P.H.T. and Monteiro، نويسنده , , L.H.A.، نويسنده ,
Pages :
4
From page :
1329
To page :
1332
Abstract :
There are several ways of controlling the propagation of a contagious disease. For instance, to reduce the spreading of an airborne infection, individuals can be encouraged to remain in their homes and/or to wear face masks outside their domiciles. However, when a limited amount of masks is available, who should use them: the susceptible subjects, the infective persons or both populations? Here we employ susceptible-infective-recovered (SIR) models described in terms of ordinary differential equations and probabilistic cellular automata in order to investigate how the deletion of links in the random complex network representing the social contacts among individuals affects the dynamics of a contagious disease. The inspiration for this study comes from recent discussions about the impact of measures usually recommended by health public organizations for preventing the propagation of the swine influenza A (H1N1) virus. Our answer to this question can be valid for other eco-epidemiological systems.
Keywords :
Epidemiology , Probabilistic cellular automata , ordinary differential equations , SIR model , Swine influenza A virus , Random complex networks
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics
Record number :
2085499
Link To Document :
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