Influenza Models Prospects for Development and Use

Influenza Models Prospects for Development and Use / edited by P. Selby.

Kilbourne (1973) described the student of influenza as "continually looking back over his shoulder and asking 'what happened?', in the hope that understanding of past events will alert him to the catastrophies ofthe future". Experience suggests the futility of such a hope, since...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Selby, P. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1982.
Edition:1st ed. 1982.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Infectious diseases.
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Table of Contents:
  • Background paper: Applications of mathematical models to the epidemiology of influenza: a critique
  • I. The epidemiology of influenza key facts and remaining problems
  • Discussion
  • II. Models of the temporal spread of epidemics
  • Discussion
  • III. Models of family and small community spread
  • Discussion
  • IV. Relationship of parameters to the real world
  • Discussion
  • V. Herd immunity
  • Discussion
  • VI. Models of geographic spread
  • Discussion
  • VII. Intervention models and vaccine strategy
  • Discussion
  • VIII. Recommendations
  • Participants.

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