An epidemic model is proposed to incorporate population dispersals between patches and to include a constant infection period. A basic reproduction number of the model is established by means of a next generation matrix. It is found that a disease may spread when the population migrates in two patches, even though it dies out in each isolated patch. It is also found that the disease admits multiple exchanges between persistence and extinction for some types of migrations of individuals.
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