Epidemics and Pandemics
Modeling influenza epidemics and pandemics: insights into the future of swine flu (H1N1)
... controlling pandemics of varying severity, where severity has been defined by the value of R 0 ...for epidemics gener- ated by strains, such as influenza A (H1N1), that emerge due to recombination of ...
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Evidence Decision-Making Policy Practice in Emerging Pandemics and Epidemics Threats Preparedness and Response Operations in Africa
... in pandemics and epidemics preparedness and rapid response research and development ...diseases epidemics, poverty poor health and productivity in ...emerging pandemics and epidemics ...
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Review of Potential High-Leverage and Inexpensive Mitigations for Reducing Risk in Epidemics and Pandemics
... Lastly, for case three, the paper focuses on pathogen types identified by Adalja et al. [10] as having high pandemic potential. This class of pathogens has several of the following characteristics: an “absence of an ...
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The Global Economic Effects of Pandemic Influenza
... Infectious disease outbreaks can easily cross borders to threaten economic and regional stability, as has been demonstrated historically by the HIV, 2009 H1N1 influenza, H5N1, and SARS epidemics and ...
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... This short note proposes a national Geographic Information System (GIS) - based health infrastructure to deal with epidemics and pandemics. Currently, there is no pan-India health infrastructure available ...
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Influenza pandemics: past, present and future challenges
... immunizations points to an important credibility issue, and the sharing of available vaccine with developing countries requires international attention. It is likely that, after 2010, the experience of H1N1 pandemic infl ...
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Pandemics, pathogenicity and changing molecular epidemiology of cholera in the era of global warming
... cholera pandemics have occurred since the onset of the first report in 1817 and the seventh one in 1961 in Egypt ...between pandemics and epidemics may be influenced by climate variations, with ...
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Can public health reconcile profits and pandemics?
... (NCD) epidemics are increasingly recognised as being driven by transnational corporations involved in the production, manufacture and retail of unhealthy ...
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H1N1/09 Influenza: 20th Century flu pandemics
... The H1N1 form of swine flu is one of the descendants of the strain that caused the 1918 flu pandemic. As well as persisting in pigs, the descendants of the 1918 virus have also circulated in humans through the 20th ...
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Pandemics and Networks: the Case of the Mexican Flu
... Large population centers are ideal for the spread of dis- ease. The deployment of vaccines in large areas can ex- ceed 6 or 8 months [8] and for some diseases, a vaccine does not exist. Thus, it is interesting to ...
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Plague pandemics investigated by ribotyping of Yersinia pestis strains
... It seems probable that the Y pestis clone of ribotype B which caused the third pandemic derived from the first clone for at least two reasons: i the EcoRI and EcoRV patterns of ribotype [r] ...
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EPIDEMICS AND COMPLICATIONS OF HYSTEROSCOPY
... The complications which are specific to hysteroscopic surgery and come into the purview of the anesthetist are those which may present as shock resulting from uterine perforation or inju[r] ...
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A Relational Sociological Study on the Effects of Uncertainties in the Case of Influenza in Turkey
... Health issues, especially global health issues, are important subjects of study for many sociologists. For example, the spread of influenza as a pandemic af- fects a large number of people and their emotions in terms of ...
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Epidemiological Evidence for Lineage-Specific Differences in the Risk of Inapparent Chikungunya Virus Infection
... ABSTRACT In late 2013, chikungunya virus (CHIKV) was introduced into the Ameri- cas, leading to widespread epidemics. A large epidemic caused by the Asian chikun- gunya virus (CHIKV) lineage occurred in Managua, ...
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On pandemics and the duty to care: whose duty? who cares?
... Despite this challenge, professional codes of ethics are silent on the issue of duty to care during communicable disease outbreaks, thus providing no guidance on what is expected of HCPs[r] ...
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On the epidemics of 1852 3
... show the early implication of the kidney, for in almost all the scarlet fever cases, that is-patients ill in the first week, albumen is shown to exist; in the cases after scarlet fever a[r] ...
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Quarantine and the Federal Role in Epidemics
... Part III asks whether the CDC should reconsider these regulations. Despite the claim that they largely codify existing practice, these regula- tions appear to be a reaction to the Ebola scare rather than a thoughtful, ...
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The potential impact of the next influenza pandemic on a national primary care medical workforce
... The United States Centers for Disease Control and Preven- tion (CDC) have developed a relatively simple determin- istic model, "FluAid" (on freely available software), for analysing the impact of future influenza ...
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Vaccination strategies for future influenza pandemics: a severity based cost effectiveness analysis
... caused pandemics that have ranged in severity from what might be termed mild – being little more pathogenic than seasonal influenza, as in the case of the 2009 pandemic [1] – to extremely severe, as in the case of ...
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Pure functional epidemics
... In Section 2 we define Agent-Based Simulation, introduce Functional Reactive Programming, Arrowized programming and Monadic Stream Functions, because our approach builds heavily on these[r] ...
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