Modeling SARS Spreading on Complex Networks

TL;DR

This paper introduces the concept of network immunity in modeling SARS spread, showing how the disease alters network structure to weaken and eventually stop its own transmission, and discusses methods to accelerate this process.

Contribution

It proposes a novel mechanism called immunity of contact network and explores how network evolution impacts SARS spreading dynamics.

Findings

Network structure changes weaken disease spread

Accelerating network immunity can halt SARS transmission

Network evolution plays a crucial role in epidemic control

Abstract

The spreading of SARS will destruct the initial network structure to a new phase, and in turn the spreading process will be weakened effectively and finally halted by this evolution of network structure. This mechanism is called immunity of contact network in this paper. What we can do is to accelerate effectively this process only.