Infectious diseases continue to play an
important role in the current human society causing millions
of deaths annually. Why infectious diseases still exists is
unclear. The conventional wisdom suggests that with time,
virulent pathogens should become harmless to ensure their
persistence in the host population. New studies, however,
have pointed out that virulent pathogens may still persist
in the host population if pathogens virulence is linked to
the pathogen transmissibility. Using mathematical...