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...
Infectious diseases continue to play an important role in the current human society causing millions of deaths annuall...