If successfully deployed as a weapon, smallpox would be far more terrible than anthrax. Highly contagious, smallpox has a fatality rate of 30 per cent, and many survivors are disfigured for life. This book describes the results of a cutting-edge computer model used to simulate a smallpox epidemic in a two-town county. By providing public health policymakers with a variety of feasible vaccination and isolation strategies, these models are playing a critical role in the development of a national small pox containment strategy.
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Joshua M. Epstein and Shubha Chakravarty are with the Brookings Institution. Derek A. T. Cummings, Ramesh M. Singha, and Donald S. Burke are with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and the subsequent anthrax outbreaks on the east coast of the United States, bioterror concerns have focused on smallpox. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and the subsequent anthrax outbreaks on the east coast of the United States, bioterror concerns have focused on smallpox. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control (Oxford Science Publications) by Roy M. Anderson in Back Matter
- PATHOLOGY OF EMERGING INFECTIONS - 2. by Ann Marie & C. Robert Horsburgh Jr. (edits). Nelson in Back Matter
- World Health Organization by Sam Epstein in Back Matter
- Smallpox and Its Eradication (History of International Public Health, No. 6) (v. 6) by Numerous in Back Matter
- Evolutionary Computation by Kenneth A. de De Jong in Back Matter
- Discrete Methods in Epidemiology: Dimacs Workshop, Date Mining And Epidemioloogy, March 18-19, 2004, Dimacs Center, Rutgers University (Dimacs Series ... Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science) by Abello and Cormode on page 230
- Agent-Based Simulation: From Modeling Methodologies to Real-World Applications: Post Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agent-Based ... Systems 2004 (Agent-Based Social Systems) by Takao Terano on page 15
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