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Size of outbreaks near the epidemic threshold
The spread of infectious diseases near the epidemic threshold is investigated. Scaling laws for the size and the duration of outbreaks originating from a single infected individual in a large susceptible population are obtained. The maximal size of an outbreak ${n}_{\ensuremath{\ast}}$ scales as ${N}^{2∕3}$ with $N$ the population size. This …