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Grief: The Epidemic Within an Epidemic [PDF]
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 2020 COVID-19 has not only dramatically changed the way we live, it has also impacted how we die and how we grieve. With more and more Americans dying in ICU settings, away from family, and more funerals being held virtually, the pandemic has seriously curtailed normal expressions of grief and cultural mourning.
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npj Vaccines, 2023 Chikungunya is an arboviral disease caused by the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) afflicting tropical and sub-tropical countries worldwide. It has been identified as a priority pathogen by the Coalition for Epidemics Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and as an ...
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Considerations for bioanalytical characterization and batch release of COVID-19 vaccines
npj Vaccines, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted hundreds of laboratories around the world to employ traditional as well as novel technologies to develop vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. The hallmarks of a successful vaccine are safety and efficacy.
Gautam Sanyal +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 African swine fever (ASF) caused by ASF virus (ASFV) is an infectious transboundary animal disease notifiable to the World Organization for Animal Health causing high mortality in domestic pigs and wild boars threatening the global domestic pig industry.
Jean N. Hakizimana +6 more
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Malaria epidemics and interventions, Kenya, Burundi, southern Sudan, and Ethiopia, 1999-2004. [PDF]
, 2006 Quantitative data on the onset and evolution of malaria epidemics are scarce. We review case studies from recent African Plasmodium falciparum epidemics (Kisii and Gucha Districts, Kenya, 1999; Kayanza Province, Burundi, 2000-2001; Aweil East, southern ...
Alberti, Kathryn P +22 more
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British Journal of General Practice, 2009 Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu Philip Alcabes Public Affairs US 2009 336 $26.95 9781586486181 As we tremble in anticipation of the predicted second wave of the great swine flu pandemic, Philip Alcabes tells us that can be confident of one thing.
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On the Duration of an Epidemic
Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, 2022 A stochastic SIR (Susceptible, Infected, Recovered) model for the spread of a non-lethal disease is considered. The size of the population is constant. The problem of computing the moment-generating function of the random time until all members of the population are recovered is solved in special cases.
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundEvidence indicates that older people with biological and social vulnerabilities are at high risk of short- and long-term consequences related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Viveka Guzman +8 more
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Response to malaria epidemics in Africa. [PDF]
, 2007 Malaria epidemics affect nonimmune populations in many highland and semi-arid areas of Africa. Effective prevention of these epidemics is challenging, particularly in the highlands where predictive accuracy of indicators is not sufficiently high to allow
Tarekegn A. Abeku +2 more
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