Abstract
AbstractWe examine conditions under which high prevalence of infectious disease can become endemic within a community, in effect constituting a state of 'herd infection' inverse to epidemiological herd immunity. For something like AIDS, under such circumstances, a single behavioral lapse or adverse accident will probably be a death sentence.
Highlights
The form of a social network and the behaviors of those within it are cultural artifacts reflecting both current conditions and historical trajectory: Culture is both dynamically and historically configured, and represents a third system of human heritage beyond the genetic and biochemical epigenetic (e.g., Boyd and Richerson, 2004; Richerson and Boyd, 2005; Jablonka and Lamb, 1995)
We will examine the role of marginalization and oppression in creating a kind of superhighway for pandemic infection within affected communities, and use a formal model to explore the insight of L
The first focuses on conditions under which a ‘giant component’ emerges within a networked population of sucseptibles allowing the propagation of infection to a significant fraction of it
Summary
The form of a social network and the behaviors of those within it are cultural artifacts reflecting both current conditions and historical trajectory: Culture is both dynamically and historically configured, and represents a third system of human heritage beyond the genetic and biochemical epigenetic (e.g., Boyd and Richerson, 2004; Richerson and Boyd, 2005; Jablonka and Lamb, 1995). Beane (2011) that a kind of mirror image to epidemiological herd immunity might be possible, i.e., a ‘herd infection’ sufficient to virtually guarantee the infection of susceptible individuals within a population. The first focuses on conditions under which a ‘giant component’ emerges within a networked population of sucseptibles allowing the propagation of infection to a significant fraction of it. It will be seen that social network structure and the generation of a ‘behavioral vocabulary’ that may accelerate infection transmission are . Intertwined but synergistic, and strongly determined by current and historical power relations between groups. This is, overall, quite straightforward, and leads directly to Beane’s concept of herd infection
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