An emerging disease is one infectious epidemic caused by a newly transmissible pathogen,
which has either appeared for the first time or already existed in human populations, having …

Since the 21st century, the global outbreaks of infectious diseases such as SARS in 2003,
H1N1 in 2009, and H7N9 in 2013, have become the critical threat to the public health and a …

In general, different countries and communities respond to epidemics in accordance with
their own control plans and protocols. However, owing to global human migration and …

The heterogeneity is a key feature of individual mobility which caused by different
comprehensive interferences, including the distinctions of interventions deployed by …

Background Determining the pandemic potential of an emerging infectious disease and how
it depends on the various epidemic and population aspects is critical for the preparation of …

Spatial spread of infectious diseases among populations via the mobility of humans is highly
stochastic and heterogeneous. Accurate forecast/mining of the spread process is often hard …

We report the results of a series of simulations of a susceptible-infected-recovered epidemic
model in heterogeneous spatial metapopulation networks with quantitative knowledge of …

Infectious diseases outbreaks are often characterized by a spatial component induced by
hosts' distribution, mobility and interactions. Spatial models that incorporate hosts' …

Background Zipf's law and Heaps' law are two representatives of the scaling concepts,
which play a significant role in the study of complexity science. The coexistence of the Zipf's …

Publisher Summary This chapter uses extensive data sets and realistic dynamic models to
discuss the metapopulation dynamics of infectious disease. Because of the dual spatial …