Researchers from European Institute of Oncology Publish Findings in Vaccines

2011 MAR 30 -- A new study, 'The impact of vaccine side effects on the natural history of immunization programmes: an imitation-game approach,' is now available. According to a study from Milano, Italy, "When the incidence and prevalence of most common vaccine preventable childhood infectious diseases are constantly low, as is the case in many industrialized countries, the incidence of vaccine-associated side effects might become a key determinant in vaccine demand. We study an SIR transmission model with dynamic vaccine demand based on an imitation mechanism where the perceived risk of vaccination is modelled as a function of the incidence of vaccine side effects."

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