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The typical duration of an epidemic in a sequence of linearly ordered populations shows a surprising nonmonotonic behaviour with respect to population size, which was noted by Swinton (1998) [Bull. Math. Biol., 60, 215–230]. This paper gives the sketch of a proof of the phenomenon.
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Barbour, A.D., Kälin, R. The duration of a sequence of epidemics. Bull. Math. Biol. 65, 397–405 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0092-8240(03)00010-7
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