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, 2006 This article examines how diseases on random networks spread in time. The disease is described by a probability distribution function for the number of infected and recovered individuals, and the probability distribution is described by a generating ...
L. A. Meyers +3 more
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For-Profit Hospitals Out of Business? Financial Sustainability During the COVID-19 Epidemic Emergency Response [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020 This perspective argues that for-profit hospitals will be heavily affected by epidemic crises, including the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.
Florien Margareth Kruse +1 more
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Some Remarks about the Complexity of Epidemics Management
, 2017 Recent outbreaks of Ebola, H1N1 and other infectious diseases have shown that the assumptions underlying the established theory of epidemics management are too idealistic. For an improvement of procedures and organizations involved in fighting epidemics,
Brown, André EX +11 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 This paper studies the spread of the Black Death as a proxy for the ow of medieval trade between 1346 and 1351. The Black Death struck most areas of Europe and the wider Mediter- ranean. Based on a modified version of the gravity model, we estimate the speed (in kilometers per day) of transmission of the disease between the transmitting and the ...
Lars Boerner, Battista Severgnini
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Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo, 2011 Introduction. Keratocnjunctivitis is corneal and conjunctival inflammation Clinical signs involve the irritating trio: mixed hyperemia of conjunctival membranes, corneal subepthelial infiltrates and regional lymphadenopathy. The most common causes of epidemic are adenovirus, herpes virus, and rarely cytomegalovirus, which are now occurring ...
Mirjana Janicijevic-Petrovic +3 more
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Health Research in AfricaIntroduction. Community Health Workers (CHWs) are key community and health system liasons. Their closeness and acceptance by their community give them an important role to play concerning early detection in community-based surveillance (CBS). To sort out
Chanceline Bilounga Ndongo +11 more
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Networked SIS Epidemics with Awareness
, 2016 We study an SIS epidemic process over a static contact network where the nodes have partial information about the epidemic state. They react by limiting their interactions with their neighbors when they believe the epidemic is currently prevalent. A node'
Eksin, Ceyhun +3 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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BMC Infectious DiseasesBackground In September 2023, fifty cases of chronic limb ulcers of unknown origin were reported in six Health Districts (HDs) in Northern Cameroon. This disease, locally called “Ladde”, was described as of mystical origin, transmitted by insect bites ...
Theodore Alex Tonye +21 more
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TrialsBackground Pandemics have increasingly become more frequent. Globally, between 1970 and 2016, a total of over 1770 disease outbreaks of 38 known and two unknown causes were reported.
Winters Muttamba +6 more
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