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Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror

Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror An Individual-Based Computational Approach

Terrorism, Health Care, Technology, Pandemic Disease

Derek Cummings, Donald S. Burke, Joshua M. Epstein, Ramesh M. Singa and Shubha Chakravarty, Brookings Institution Press 2004 c. 55pp.

1. Introduction

2. The County-Level Model

3. Simulated Epidemics

4. Vaccination Strategies

5. Bifurcation and Epidemic Quenching

6. A Balanced Policy

7. Research Conducted under the Auspices of the Smallpox Modeling Working Group

8. Further Research

APPENDIX A: Technical Discussion

APPENDIX B: Current Smallpox Policy

References

Index

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