Planning for smallpox outbreaks

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6959, 2003, Pages 681-685

  Ferguson, Neil M ^a   Keeling, Matt J ^b   Edmunds, W John ^c   Gani, Raymond ^c   Grenfell, Bryan T ^d   Anderson, Roy M ^a   Leach, Steve ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VIRUSES;

VIRAL CONTROL;

DISEASE CONTROL;

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALLPOX; SMALLPOX VIRUS; VACCINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BIOTERRORISM; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALLPOX;

DNA VIRUSES; VARIOLA VIRUS;

EID: 0142246450     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02007     Document Type: Review

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