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Disease Spreading
Many infectious diseases of humans spread either through human-to-human or
human-to-animal interactions; hence, epidemiological models of infection seem
like an obvious area of application for the science of networks, and for social
networks in particular. It may come as a surprise, therefore, that the literature
on mathematical epidemiology has paid relatively little attention to the struc-
ture of the networks—whether sexual, friendship, community, or transportation
networks—through which infectious diseases manifestly spread. Whereas clini-
cal epidemiologists routinely apply methods like contact tracing that are inher-
ently network-oriented (Klovdahl et al. 1994, Potterat et al. 1999), mathematical
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