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The vertical disease spreading from parent to offspring and/or horizontal transmission through infection is discussed, using cellular automata approach implemented on a N × N lattice. We concentrate on age distribution of the population, resulting from different scenario, such as whether newborns are placed in close vicinity of parents or separated from them. We also include migration aspect in context of disease spreading. Main conclusions drawn are that the vertical version is resistant to manipulations of parameters which control migration. Horizontal version represents self-recovering population unless migration of grown-ups is introduced for the case of offsprings located in vicinity of parents. Then the migration seems to be beneficial for highly infectious and lethally diseases, while it brings more deaths for milder infections.
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Magdoń-Maksymowicz, M. (2004). Simulation of a Horizontal and Vertical Disease Spread in Population. In: Bubak, M., van Albada, G.D., Sloot, P.M.A., Dongarra, J. (eds) Computational Science - ICCS 2004. ICCS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3039. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25944-2_97
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