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Public Health Challenges, 2023 The COVID‐19 pandemic has presented Algeria with a slew of issues, including major economic consequences. Despite implementing containment measures, the government has been unable to fully restrict the spread of the virus.
Chijioke Christopher Uhegwu +5 more
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Cervical Cancer Screening in Partly HPV Vaccinated Cohorts - A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Vaccination against the oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 will reduce the prevalence of these types, thereby also reducing cervical cancer risk in unvaccinated women.
Steffie K Naber +5 more
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Understanding Herd Immunity [PDF]
Trends in Immunology, 2015 Individual immunity is a powerful force affecting host health and pathogen evolution. Importantly, the effects of individual immunity also scale up to affect pathogen transmission dynamics and the success of vaccination campaigns for entire host populations. Population-scale immunity is often termed 'herd immunity'.
Metcalf, C.J.E. +3 more
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“Don’t Look Up” Your Science—Herd Immunity or Herd Mentality?
Microorganisms, 2022 This analysis piece will attempt to examine some of the critical pandemic-related measures implemented in the United States from an immunological perspective and pinpoint caveats that should have been considered before their implementation.
Botond Z. Igyártó
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Herd culture and herd immunity
Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2022 Abstract Although communicable diseases affect our bodies, they occur in a society that interprets and gives them meaning. Herd immunity provides the body protection; however, long-term protection requires shifts in the way people interpret and respond to disease, cultural transformation that enables the development of the knowledge, habits and skills ...
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PLoS ONE, 2022 With limited availability of vaccines, an efficient use of the limited supply of vaccines in order to achieve herd immunity will be an important tool to combat the wide-spread prevalence of COVID-19. Here, we compare a selection of strategies for vaccine
André Voigt, Stig Omholt, Eivind Almaas
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COVID-19: individual and herd immunity
Comptes Rendus Biologies, 2021 Immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus ensures protection against reinfection by this virus thanks to the combined action of neutralizing antibodies and T lymphocytes specific to viral proteins, in particular the Spike protein.
Bach, Jean-François +4 more
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Investigating vaccine-induced immunity and its effect in mitigating SARS-CoV-2 epidemics in China
BMC Medicine, 2022 Background To allow a return to a pre-COVID-19 lifestyle, virtually every country has initiated a vaccination program to mitigate severe disease burden and control transmission. However, it remains to be seen whether herd immunity will be within reach of
Hengcong Liu +14 more
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Global control of COVID-19: good vaccines may not suffice
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has unveiled health and socioeconomic inequities around the globe. Effective epidemic control requires the achievement of herd immunity, where susceptible individuals are conferred indirect protection by being surrounded by ...
Javier Eslava-Schmalbach +2 more
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Herd immunity by infection is not an option [PDF]
Science, 2021 Difficult lessons are learned from a largely uncontrolled COVID-19 epidemic in Manaus ...
Sridhar, Devi, Gurdasani, Deepti
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