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Author
Böttcher, Lucas
Andrade Jr., José S.
Herrmann, Hans J.
Date
2017Type
- Journal Article
Abstract
We propose a targeted intervention protocol where recovery is restricted to individuals that have the least number of infected neighbours. Our recovery strategy is highly efficient on any kind of network, since epidemic outbreaks are minimal when compared to the baseline scenario of spontaneous recovery. In the case of spatially embedded networks, we find that an epidemic stays strongly spatially confined with a characteristic length scale undergoing a random walk. We demonstrate numerically and analytically that this dynamics leads to an epidemic spot with a flat surface structure and a radius that grows linearly with the spreading rate Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000205807Publication status
publishedJournal / series
Scientific ReportsVolume
Pages
Publisher
Nature Publishing GroupOrganisational unit
03733 - Herrmann, Hans Jürgen
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