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Research reports from Tel-Aviv University provide new insights into life sciences
June 18th, 2008
According to recent research published in the Journal of Mathematical Biology, "Driven by seasonality, many common recurrent infectious diseases are characterized by strong annual, biennial and sometimes irregular oscillations in the absence of vaccination programs. Using the seasonally forced SIR epidemic model, we are able to provide new insights into the dynamics of recurrent diseases and, in some cases, specific predictions about individual outbreaks." "The analysis reveals a new threshold effect that gives clear conditions for the triggering of future disease outbreaks or their absence. The threshold depends critically on the susceptibility S (0) of the...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-06-18)
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