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Absorption in stochastic epidemics. (English) Zbl 1165.92319
Summary: A two dimensional stochastic differential equation is suggested as a stochastic model for the Kermack-McKendrick epidemics. Its strong (weak) existence and uniqueness and absorption properties are investigated. The examples presented in the last section are meant to illustrate possible different asymptotics of solutions to the equation.
##### MSC:
 92D30 Epidemiology 60H10 Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis)
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