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Measles: A dangerous vaccine-preventable disease returns

Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine, 2019
Although a safe and effective vaccine has been available for over 6 decades, vaccine hesitancy in the United States and social and political unrest globally have led to under-vaccination. As a result, in recent months, vaccine control of measles has been
A. Porter, J. Goldfarb
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Falling into the Echo Chamber: the Italian Vaccination Debate on Twitter [PDF]

International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2020, 2020
The reappearance of measles in the US and Europe, a disease considered eliminated in early 2000s, has been accompanied by a growing debate on the merits of vaccination on social media. In this study we examine the extent to which the vaccination debate on Twitter is conductive to potential outreach to the vaccination hesitant. We focus on Italy, one of
arxiv  

Should Eminence Outweigh Evidence? The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board's Report on Pandemic Preparedness

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Global Pandemic Monitoring Board (GPMB) is a group of eminent individuals publishing reports calling for increased emphasis on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR). They advocate for the World Health Organization's (WHO) PPPR preferred approach and its attendant financial requests. Though claiming independence, GPMB is co‐
David Bell, Garrett Wallace Brown, Blagovesta Tacheva, Jean von Agris   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stochastic and nonstochastic descriptions of the 2019-2020 measles outbreak worldwide with an emphasis in Mexico [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Measles is an infectious disease caused by the Morbilivirus Measles Virus which has accompanied the human race since the 4th millennium BC, it is a disease usually concerning the paediatric population and in the past, before the advent of vaccination, almost all the population suffered from it, and in some cases the complications derived from this ...
arxiv  

Monte Carlo simulation of the transmission of measles: Beyond the mass action principle [PDF]

, 2001
We present a Monte Carlo simulation of the transmission of measles within a population sample during its growing and equilibrium states by introducing two different vaccination schedules of one and two doses. We study the effects of the contact rate per unit time $\xi $ as well as the initial conditions on the persistence of the disease.
arxiv   +1 more source

Measles Vaccination Before the Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine

American Journal of Public Health, 2013
At the beginning of the 1960s, it was clear that a vaccine against measles would soon be available. Although measles was (and remains) a killer disease in the developing world, in the United States and Western Europe this was no longer so. Many parents and many medical practitioners considered measles an inevitable stage of a child’s development ...
Stuart Blume, Jan Hendriks
openaire   +4 more sources

Sufficient reproduction numbers to prevent recurrent epidemics

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Current practice in the design and evaluation of control measures in disease ecology and epidemiology, including vaccination, is largely based on reproduction numbers (RNs), which represent prognostic indices of long‐term disease transmission, both in naïve populations (basic RN) and in the presence of prior exposure or infection containment ...
Lorenzo Mari, Cristiano Trevisin, Andrea Rinaldo, Marino Gatto   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measles and Measles Vaccination [PDF]

BMJ, 1964
Neville Butler, Philip F. Benson
openaire   +5 more sources

Global emergency medicine: A scoping review of the literature from 2023

Academic Emergency Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective The Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) highlights the highest‐quality research addressing emergency care in resource‐limited settings (ECRLS). This 18th edition reviews global emergency medicine (GEM) literature published during 2023.
Braden J. Hexom, Nana Serwaa A. Quao, N. Shakira Bandolin, Joseph Bonney, Morgan C. Broccoli, Amanda Collier, Nanaba A. Dawson‐Amoah, Jonathan Dyal, Vinay Kampalath, J. Austin Lee, Chris A. Rees, Gabriel Lucca de Oliveira Salvador, Jonathan M. Strong, Sean M. Kivlehan, Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) Group, Zainab Ahmed, Kimonia Bih Awanchiri, N. Shakira Bandolin, Emily Bartlett, Nidhi Bhaskar, Corey B. Bills, Joseph Bonney, Morgan C. Broccoli, Whitney K. Bryant, Agatha Brzezinski, Jonathan Chan, Emily Chien, Joseph D. Ciano, Cassandra Clay, Emily Cloessner, Amanda Collier, Emma Cortes, Nanaba A. Dawson‐Amoah, Jonathan W. Dyal, Stephanie Chow Garbern, Reid Haflich, Mohamed F. Hassan, Alison S. Hayward, Braden J. Hexom, Keanoo C. Hill, Anneka Hooft, Jennifer E. Jones, Vinay N. Kampalath, Elizabeth M Keating, Sean M. Kivlehan, Colleen E. Laurence, Joseph Leanza, J. Austin Lee, Gideon Loevinsohn, Rmaah Memon, Mwanja Moses, Dana Naamani, Benjamin D. Nicholson, Hannah Ofosua Owusu, Gerard M. O’Reilly, Mayur Patel, Nana Serwaa A. Quao, Chris A. Rees, Pryanka Relan, Charlotte M. Roy, Megan M. Rybarczyk, Gabriel Lucca de Oliveira Salvador, Anand Selvam, Julia R. Schiff, Jessica Schmidt, Megan L. Schultz, Erin F Shufflebarger, Branden J. Skarpiak, Jonathan M. Strong, Janet Jebichii Sugut, Fadila Tekka, Alex H. Wang, W. Tyler Winders, Tal Berkowitz, Vijaya Arun Kumar, Mallika Manyapu, Daniel Roberts   +76 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Internet and the Anti-Vaccine Movement: Tracking the 2017 EU Measles Outbreak

Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2018
In the Internet Era of information overload, how does the individual filter and process available knowledge? In addressing this question, this paper examines the behavioral changes in the online interest in terms related to Measles and the Anti-Vaccine ...
A. Mavragani, Gabriela Ochoa
semanticscholar   +1 more source