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PLoS Pathogens, 2021 It is often messaged that herd immunity to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2 (CoV-2)), the causative agent of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), will protect nonvaccinated individuals from infection. Herd immunity refers to the
J. Yewdell
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Ethics of Vaccination in Childhood—A Framework Based on the Four Principles of Biomedical Ethics
Vaccines, 2021 Although vaccination is recognised as the top public health achievement of the twentieth century, unequivocal consensus about its beneficence does not exist among the general population.
Meta Rus, Urh Groselj
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A qualitative risk assessment of factors contributing to foot and mouth disease outbreaks in cattle along the western boundary of the Kruger National Park [PDF]
, 2009 Between November 2000 and the end of 2007, five outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) occurred in cattle in the area adjacent to the Kruger National Park (KNP) in the north-eastern corner of South Africa.
Bengis, R.G. +6 more
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Herd immunity by infection is not an option
Science, 2021 Difficult lessons are learned from a largely uncontrolled COVID-19 epidemic in Manaus, Brazil Herd immunity is expected to arise when a virus cannot spread readily, because it encounters a population that has a level of immunity that reduces the number ...
Devi Sridhar, D. Gurdasani
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Herd immunity and epidemic size in networks with vaccination homophily. [PDF]
Physical Review E, 2021 We study how the herd immunity threshold and the expected epidemic size depend on homophily with respect to vaccine adoption. We find that the presence of homophily considerably increases the critical vaccine coverage needed for herd immunity and that ...
Takayuki Hiraoka +3 more
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Vaccines, 2021 In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) established the Global Vaccine Action Plan with the objective to promote essential vaccinations in all countries and achieve at least 90% vaccination coverage for all routine vaccines by 2020.
P. Plans-Rubió
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Road to achieving COVID‐19 herd immunity in Niger Republic: Challenges and recommendations
Public Health Challenges, 2022 COVID‐19 pandemic has had tremendous impact on countries across the world and Niger Republic is not left out of the ravaging impact of the virus. The rapid dissemination of the virus across the globe has led to the development of safe and efficacious ...
Sil‐Ana Salissou Abdou +4 more
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A Game-Theoretic Model of Monkeypox to Assess Vaccination Strategies [PDF]
, 2020 A Game-Theoretic Model of Monkeypox to Assess Vaccination Strategies Sri Vibhaav Bankaru, Depts. of Biomedical Engineering, Math, & Chemistry, Samuel Kossol, William Hou, & Parsa Mahmoudi, with Dr. Jan Rychtar, Dept.
Bankuru, Sri Vibhaav +5 more
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Invited review: Epidemics on social networks [PDF]
, 2013 Since its first formulations almost a century ago, mathematical models for disease spreading contributed to understand, evaluate and control the epidemic processes.They promoted a dramatic change in how epidemiologists thought of the propagation of ...
Kuperman, Marcelo N.
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Expert systems with applications, 2021 Reconfiguration of the distribution network to determine its optimal configuration is a technical and low-cost method that can improve different characteristics of the network based on multi-criteria optimization.
A. Naderipour +3 more
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