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Spreading of an infectious disease between different locations
The endogenous adaptation of agents, that may adjust their local contact
network in response to the risk of being infected, can have the perverse effect
of increasing the overall systemic infectiveness of a disease. We study a
dynamical model over two geographically distinct but interacting locations, to
better understand theoretically the mechanism at play. Moreover, we provide
empirical motivation from the Italian National Bovine Database, for the period
2006-2013.Comment: 22 pages (and 10 pages for appendix); 11 figures (2 in appendix
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