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• Coupled Contagion Dynamics of Fear and Disease: Mathematical and Computational Explorations

  Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In classical mathematical epidemiology, individuals do not adapt their contact behavior during epidemics. They do not endogenously engage, for example, in social distancing based on fear. Yet, adaptive behavior is well-documented in true epidemics. Joshua M. Epstein, Jon Parker, Derek Cummings, and Ross A. Hammond explore the effect of including such behavior in models of epidemic dynamics.  

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

  Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  
  This book describes the results of a cutting-edge computer model used to simulate a smallpox epidemic in a two-town county. By providing public health policymakers with a variety of feasible vaccination and isolation strategies, these models are play