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Figure 7

From: The impact of media coverage on the transmission dynamics of human influenza

Figure 7

A media-induced epidemic Long-term dynamics for the simplified model (15)-(20). Without media effects, the maximum number of infected individuals remains low (solid purple curve). When media effects trigger a vaccinating panic where partially protected vaccinated individuals mix with infectives significantly more than susceptible individuals, a significant outbreak may occur, with the final number of infected individuals much higher than if no media effects had been included (dashed green curve, assuming no fluctuations after the vaccinating panic occurs). The result of including fluctuations above the vaccination panic threshold are also shown (solid blue curve). Inset: magnified view of the fluctuation versus nonfluctuation cases.

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