Measles Rash Identification Using Residual Deep Convolutional Neural Network [PDF]
2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2020 Measles is extremely contagious and is one of the leading causes of vaccine-preventable illness and death in developing countries, claiming more than 100,000 lives each year. Measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000 due to decades of successful vaccination for the measles.
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Impact of network assortativity on epidemic and vaccination behaviour [PDF]
chaos, solitons & fractals,140:110143, 2020, 2020 The resurgence of measles is largely attributed to the decline in vaccine adoption and the increase in mobility. Although the vaccine for measles is readily available and highly successful, its current adoption is not adequate to prevent epidemics. Vaccine adoption is directly affected by individual vaccination decisions, and has a complex interplay ...
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Measles-induced immune amnesia and its effects in concurrent epidemics [PDF]
, 2021 It has been recently discovered that the measles virus can wipe out the adaptive immune system, destroying B lymphocytes and reducing the diversity of non-specific B cells of the infected host. In particular, this implies that previously acquired immunization from vaccination or direct exposition to other pathogens could be erased in a phenomenon named
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Space-time smoothing models for sub-national measles routine immunization coverage estimation with complex survey data [PDF]
, 2020 Despite substantial advances in global measles vaccination, measles disease burden remains high in many low- and middle-income countries. A key public health strategy for controling measles in such high-burden settings is to conduct supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) in the form of mass vaccination campaigns, in addition to delivering ...
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Early life exposure to measles and later-life outcomes: Evidence from the introduction of a vaccine [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Until the mid 1960s, the UK experienced regular measles epidemics, with the vast majority of children being infected in early childhood. The introduction of a measles vaccine substantially reduced its incidence. The first part of this paper examines the long-term human capital and health effects of this change in the early childhood disease environment.
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Integer-Valued Functional Data Analysis for Measles Forecasting [PDF]
, 2019 Measles presents a unique and imminent challenge for epidemiologists and public health officials: the disease is highly contagious, yet vaccination rates are declining precipitously in many localities. Consequently, the risk of a measles outbreak continues to rise.
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A model of opinion dynamics with echo chambers explains the spatial distribution of vaccine hesitancy [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Vaccination hesitancy is a major obstacle to achieving and maintaining herd immunity. It is therefore of prime importance for public health authorities to understand the dynamics of an anti-vaccine opinion in the population. We introduce a novel mathematical model of opinion dynamics with spatial reinforcement, which can generate echo chambers, i.e ...
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Modeling and presentation of vaccination coverage estimates using data from household surveys [PDF]
, 2020 It is becoming increasingly popular to produce high-resolution maps of vaccination coverage by fitting Bayesian geostatistical models to data from household surveys. Often, the surveys adopt a stratified cluster sampling design. We discuss a number of crucial choices with respect to two key aspects of the map production process: the acknowledgment of ...
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Estimating efficacy of measles supplementary immunization activities via discrete-time modeling of disease incidence time series [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Measles is a significant source of global disease burden and child mortality. Measles vaccination through routine immunization (RI) programs in high-burden settings remains a challenge due to poor health care infrastructure and access. Supplementary immunization activities (SIA) in the form of vaccination campaigns are therefore implemented to prevent ...
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Vaccination, life expectancy, and trust: Patterns of COVID-19 vaccination rates around the world [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 We estimate patterns of covariation between COVID-19 vaccination rates and a set of widely used indicators of human, social, and economic capital across 146 countries in July 2021 and February 2022. About 70% of the variability in COVID-19 vaccination rates worldwide can be explained by differences in the Human Development Index (HDI) and, specifically,
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