Basically, this questions leads to a consideration of mathematical epidemiology (a mathematical approach to the the study of the incidence and distribution of diseases and other factors relating to health). For an overview of mathematical epidemiology, see
A consideration of algebraic structures in representing and analyzing epidemiological problems is quite natural, since epidemiology focuses on relational structures underlying the incidence and distribution of diseases.
A good place to start in considering such algebraic structures is the Hilbert Book project here on RG: