Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns Relevant to the Spread of Infectious Diseases
Figure 4
Relative Incidence of a New Emerging Infection in a Completely Susceptible Population, When the Infection Is Spread between and within Age Groups by the Contacts as Observed in Figure 3
For each country, we monitored incidence five generations of infection after the introduction of a single infected individual in the 65–70 age group; the incidence is normalized such that height of all bars sums to one for each country. (A) Results for all reported contacts; (B) for physical contacts only.