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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
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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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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Inductive Reasoning Games as Influenza Vaccination Models: Mean Field Analysis [PDF]
We define and analyze an inductive reasoning game of voluntary yearly vaccination in order to establish whether or not a population of individuals acting in their own self-interest would be able to prevent influenza epidemics.
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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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Prediction of invasion from the early stage of an epidemic [PDF]
Predictability of undesired events is a question of great interest in many scientific disciplines including seismology, economy, and epidemiology. Here, we focus on the predictability of invasion of a broad class of epidemics caused by diseases that lead
Gilligan, Christopher A. +3 more
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Epidemics on random intersection graphs [PDF]
In this paper we consider a model for the spread of a stochastic SIR (Susceptible $\to$ Infectious $\to$ Recovered) epidemic on a network of individuals described by a random intersection graph.
Ball, Frank G. +2 more
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Local variations in spatial synchrony of influenza epidemics [PDF]
Background: Understanding the mechanism of influenza spread across multiple geographic scales is not complete. While the mechanism of dissemination across regions and states of the United States has been described, understanding the determinants of ...
Alex R. Cook +8 more
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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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Stochastic epidemics in growing populations [PDF]
Consider a uniformly mixing population which grows as a super-critical linear birth and death process. At some time an infectious disease (of SIR or SEIR type) is introduced by one individual being infected from outside.
Britton, Tom, Trapman, Pieter
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