Household Members Do Not Contact Each Other at Random: Implications for Infectious Disease Modelling
Household Members Do Not Contact Each Other at Random: Implications for Infectious Disease Modelling
Airborne infectious diseases such as influenza are primarily transmitted from human to human by means of social contacts and thus easily spread within households. Epidemic models, used to gain insight in infectious disease spread and control, typically rely on the assumption of random mixing within households. Until now there was …