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Immunization
New immunization study findings recently were reported by researchers at University of Dar es Salaam
February 10th, 2009
"We consider a (social) network whose structure can be represented by a simple random graph having a pre-specified degree distribution. A Markovian susceptible-infectious-removed (SIR) epidemic model is defined on such a social graph," scientists in Tanzania report. "We then consider two real-time vaccination models for contact tracing during the early stages of an epidemic outbreak. The first model considers vaccination of each friend of an infectious individual (once identified) independently with probability p. The second model is related to the first model but also sets a bound on the maximum number an infectious individual can infect before being identified....
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-02-10)
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