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ArticlePhysical review. E2016

Hysteresis loop of nonperiodic outbreaks of recurrent epidemics.

Hengcong Liu, Muhua Zheng, Dayu Wu, Zhenhua Wang, Jinming Liu, Zonghua Liu

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6 authors.

Hengcong LiuDepartment of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China.
Muhua ZhengDepartment of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China.
Dayu WuDepartment of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China.
Zhenhua WangDepartment of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China.
Jinming LiuState Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
Zonghua LiuDepartment of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most of the studies on epidemics so far have focused on the growing phase, such as how an epidemic spreads and what are the conditions for an epidemic to break out in a variety of cases. However, we discover from real data that on a large scale, the spread of an epidemic is in fact a recurrent event with distinctive growing and recovering phases, i.e., a hysteresis loop. We show here that the hysteresis loop can be reproduced in epidemic models provided that the infectious rate is adiabatically increased or decreased before the system reaches its stationary state. Two ways to the hysteresis loop are revealed, which is helpful in understanding the mechanics of infections in real evolution. Moreover, a theoretical analysis is presented to explain the mechanism of the hysteresis loop.

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Models, BiologicalCommunicable DiseasesEpidemicsHumansRecurrence

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PMID28085359
PMCPMC7217505

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