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Vaccination, Herd Behavior, and Herd Immunity

Medical Decision Making, 2013
Background: During the 2009 outbreak of novel influenza AH1N1, insufficient data were available to adequately inform decision makers about benefits and risks of vaccination and disease. We hypothesized that individuals would opt to mimic their peers, having no better decision anchor.
Matan J, Cohen, Mayer, Brezis, Colin, Block, Adele, Diederich, David, Chinitz   +4 more
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Herd immunity and primary immune deficiencies

Vaccine, 2019
This letter addresses the issues adjoining the article by Bernadou et al. Measles outbreak linked to insufficient vaccination coverage in Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, France, October 2017 to July 2018. Euro Surveill. 2018;23(30):pii = 1800373. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.30.1800373.
Farrugia, Albert, Quinti, Isabella
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Herd Immunity and Measles

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1983
The basic concept of herd immunity is directly applicable only under very special conditions. The agents of disease must be restricted to a single host species within which transmission occurs by relatively direct contact, and infection induces solid immunity. Also outbreaks must occur only in randomly mixing populations.
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Herd Immunity in Rubella

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1971
ABSTRACT To the Editor.— Plotkin's EDITORIAL (215:1492, 1971) implies that no one has seen "herd immunity" in rubella. This is incorrect. The fact that adult Americans reach the age of child bearing without having contracted the disease is evidence that they had personally been protected from exposure to natural infection by herd immunity.In other ...
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Herd immunity and herd effect: new insights and definitions

European Journal of Epidemiology, 2000
The term herd immunity has been used by various authors to conform to different definitions. Earlier this situation had been identified but not corrected. We propose that it should have precise meaning for which purpose a new definition is offered: "the proportion of subjects with immunity in a given population".
T J, John, R, Samuel
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The ethics of promoting herd immunity

Family & Community Health, 1987
This article explores the extent to which social benefits may accrue from requiring pressuring or enticing individuals to be immunized to achieve herd immunity. Herd immunity is the notion that the health of the members of a society can be protected from contagious disease by increasing the number of its members who are immune until there is little ...
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Herd immunity and the HIV epidemic

Preventive Medicine, 1991
Background. Herd immunity describes the collective immunocompetence of a population and its ability to resist disease. The diseases of mycobacteria, salmonella, hepatitis A, cryptosporidia, syphilis, measles, influenza, and numerous others recently have been seen in epidemic proportions in the United States.
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Herd immunity and the herd severity effect

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2015
Noel T, Brewer, Jennifer L, Moss
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Herding Immunity

A look at the long history of vaccines, yesterday, today and still to come. In Herding Immunity, Stacy Mintzer Herlihy explores the compelling history of vaccines and the equally long history of vaccination opposition. By connecting the contemporary anti-vax movement with its historical roots, Herlihy integrates modern
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Will achieving herd immunity be a road to success to end the COVID-19 pandemic?

Journal of Infection, 2021
Kin On Kwok, Edward B Mcneil, Samuel Yeung-Shan Wong   +2 more
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