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A Pair Formation Model with Recovery: Application to Monkeypox

2022-08-18 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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The current global outbreaks of Monkeypox is a unique infectious disease in the way it seems to be transmitting: it has been observed to be highly concentrated in communities of men who have sex with men (MSM) through pair formation, and also provides immunity. This framework of mostly close, prolonged contact spreading a disease that admits immunity after infection is unlike similar infections which either offer little to no immunity post-infection or are lifelong infections. This creates the n...

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