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Demographic perspectives on the mortality of COVID-19 and other epidemics
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance What would a hypothetical 1 million US deaths in the COVID-19 epidemic mean for mortality of individuals at the population level? Life expectancy for 2020 would drop by 2.9 y. Those dying would lose an average of 11.7 y of expected remaining
J. Goldstein, Ronald D. Lee
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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2011 INTRODUCTION: We sought to compare risk of death among children aged under-2 years born to HIV positive mother (HIV-exposed) and to HIV negative mother (HIV non-exposed), and identify determinants of under-2 mortality among the two groups in Rwanda ...
Placidie Mugwaneza +14 more
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ASSESSMENT OF THE MILK COMPONENTS OF IRAQI DROMEDARY CAMELS [PDF]
Basrah Journal of Veterinary Research, 2020 Camels’ milk has gained so many attentions recently because of its unique therapeuticeffects. Iraq is one of the Arab countries with a long history of camel husbandry and few studiesregarding this important products’ compositions.
Naqa S. M. Tamimi +1 more
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A New Framework and Software to Estimate Time-Varying Reproduction Numbers During Epidemics
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2013 The quantification of transmissibility during epidemics is essential to designing and adjusting public health responses. Transmissibility can be measured by the reproduction number R, the average number of secondary cases caused by an infected individual.
A. Cori +3 more
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Journal of Travel Medicine, 2020 Four billion people worldwide have experienced coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) confinement. Such unprecedented extent of mobility restriction to curb the COVID-19 pandemic may have profound impacts on how individuals live, travel and retain well ...
I. Chu, Prima Alam, H. Larson, Leesa Lin
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High seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the capital of Chad
Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2022 Background. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chad has had 7,417 confirmed cases and 193 deaths, one of the lowest in Africa. Objective. This study assessed SARS-CoV-2 immunity in N’Djamena. Methods.
Andrillene Laure Deutou Wondeu +18 more
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The COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics—how and why?
BMJ Global Health, 2020 It is very exceptional that a new disease becomes a true pandemic. Since its emergence in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, has spread to nearly all countries of the ...
W. Van Damme +27 more
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The impacts of climate change on displaced populations: A call for action
The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2021 Introduction: Climate change is impacting the life, health, and security of people worldwide with poor communities and displaced populations at particular risk due to lack of awareness and mitigation plans. The Tigray war in Ethiopia has forced thousands
Ayman Ahmed +5 more
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Dynamical interplay between awareness and epidemic spreading in multiplex networks
, 2013 We present the analysis of the interrelation between two processes accounting for the spreading of an epidemics, and the information awareness to prevent its infection, on top of multiplex networks.
Arenas, Alex +2 more
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Velocity and hierarchical spread of epidemic outbreaks in scale-free networks [PDF]
, 2004 We study the effect of the connectivity pattern of complex networks on the propagation dynamics of epidemics. The growth time scale of outbreaks is inversely proportional to the network degree fluctuations, signaling that epidemics spread almost ...
Alain Barrat +9 more
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