How the individual human mobility spatio-temporally shapes the disease transmission dynamics.

ABSTRACT: Human mobility plays a crucial role in the temporal and spatial spreading of infectious diseases. During the past few decades, researchers have been extensively investigating how human mobility affects the propagation of diseases. However, the mechanism of human mobility shaping the spread of epidemics is still elusive. Here we examined the impact of human mobility on the infectious disease spread by developing the individual-based SEIR model that incorporates a model of human mobility. We considered the spread of human influenza in two contrasting countries, namely, Belgium and Martinique, as case studies, to assess the specific roles of human mobility on infection propagation. We found that our model can provide a geo-temporal spreading pattern of the epidemics that cannot be captured by

SUBMITTER: Changruenngam S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7347872 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature