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Influenza
New influenza study findings have been published by G. Miller and colleagues
April 29th, 2008
In this recent article published in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, scientists in the United States conducted a study "To describe the results of a simulation study of the spread of pandemic influenza, the effects of public health measures on the simulated pandemic, and the resultant adequacy of the surge capacity of the hospital infrastructure and to investigate the adequacy of key elements of the national pandemic influenza plan to reduce the overall attack rate so that surge capacity would not be overwhelmed. We used 2 discrete-event simulation models: the first model simulates the contact and disease transmission process, as affected by public health...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-04-29)
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