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Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Network Science
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • Traditional epidemic containment relies on network dismantling via immunization, often requiring extensive coverage.
  • Network fragmentation, a common strategy, is practically challenging and can have severe side effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate epidemic containment strategies using immunization fractions below the percolation threshold.
  • To explore methods for achieving finite epidemic thresholds in susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) models on scale-free networks.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of the susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model on scale-free networks.
  • Investigating targeted and acquaintance immunization strategies.
  • Evaluating immunization fractions significantly below the percolation threshold.

Main Results:

  • Moderate and weakly supervised immunizations can establish finite epidemic thresholds.
  • Pruning efficient spreaders and increasing their separation are crucial for collective activation.
  • Effective epidemic eradication was observed with immunization fractions much smaller than percolation thresholds across various real-world networks.

Conclusions:

  • Non-massive and viable immunization strategies can achieve optimal epidemic containment.
  • Preserving network functionality is possible while implementing effective containment measures.
  • The findings support practical, cost-effective approaches to public health interventions.