Mitigation strategies for pandemic influenza A: balancing conflicting policy objectives.

Mitigation of a severe influenza pandemic can be achieved using a range of interventions to reduce transmission. Interventions can reduce the impact of an outbreak and buy time until vaccines are developed, but they may have high social and economic costs. The non-linear effect on the epidemic dynam...

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Main Authors: T Déirdre Hollingsworth, Don Klinkenberg, Hans Heesterbeek, Roy M Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-02-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21347316/?tool=EBI