Epidemics of many infectious diseases occur periodically. Why?
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Earn, D.J.D. (2008). A Light Introduction to Modelling Recurrent Epidemics. In: Brauer, F., van den Driessche, P., Wu, J. (eds) Mathematical Epidemiology. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1945. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78911-6_1
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