Get the News Out Loudly and Quickly: The Influence of the Media on Limiting Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Mummert, Anna ^a   Weiss, Howard ^b  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; HIGH RISK POPULATION; INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS MEDIUM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIMULATION; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SPANISH INFLUENZA; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS MEDIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

EID: 84883171805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071692     Document Type: Article

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