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Volume 13, Number 9—September 2007
Research

Frequent Travelers and Rate of Spread of Epidemics

T. Déirdre Hollingsworth*Comments to Author , Neil M. Ferguson*, and Roy M. Anderson*
Author affiliations: *Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom;

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Figure 2

Mean number of cases exported from a single simulated source epidemic for severe acute respiratory syndrome–like parameters (A) and influenza-like parameters (B) (50,000 runs; parameters are listed in Table 1). Results are shown for a population in which everyone travels equally frequently (homogeneous model, circles), for a population in which 1% travel 20 times more frequently than the rest of the population, and for the 2 populations mixed randomly (φ = 1, squares) for moderate levels of mixing between the groups (φ = 0.5, diamonds) and for low levels of mixing in which most contacts are assortative (φ = 0.25, triangles). The first cases are either in the majority population of low-frequency fliers (solid symbols) or high-frequency fliers (open symbols). Inset in B shows a greater range on the y-axis. Variability about these means is shown in Table 2 and Appendix Figure 1.

Figure 2. Mean number of cases exported from a single simulated source epidemic for severe acute respiratory syndrome–like parameters (A) and influenza-like parameters (B) (50,000 runs; parameters are listed in Table 1). Results are shown for a population in which everyone travels equally frequently (homogeneous model, circles), for a population in which 1% travel 20 times more frequently than the rest of the population, and for the 2 populations mixed randomly (φ = 1, squares) for moderate levels of mixing between the groups (φ = 0.5, diamonds) and for low levels of mixing in which most contacts are assortative (φ = 0.25, triangles). The first cases are either in the majority population of low-frequency fliers (solid symbols) or high-frequency fliers (open symbols). Inset in B shows a greater range on the y-axis. Variability about these means is shown in Table 2 and Appendix Figure 1.

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