The geographic spread of infectious diseases : models and applications / Lisa Sattenspiel ; with contributions from Alun Lloyd.

The 1918-19 influenza epidemic killed more than fifty million people worldwide. The SARS epidemic of 2002-3, by comparison, killed fewer than a thousand. The success in containing the spread of SARS was due largely to the rapid global response of public health authorities, which was aided by insight...

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Main Authors: Sattenspiel, Lisa (Author), Lloyd, Alun, 1970- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Series:Princeton series in theoretical and computational biology.
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