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- Title
Policies for biodefense revisited: The prioritized vaccination process for smallpox.
- Authors
Kress, Moshe
- Abstract
Handling bioterror events that involve contagious agents is a major concern for authorities and a cause for debate among policymakers about the best response policy. At the core of this debate stands the question which of the two post-event policies to adopt: mass vaccination or trace (also called ring or targeted) vaccination. We present a new dynamic epidemic-intervention model that captures key features of the situation and generalizes some previous assumptions regarding the probability distributions of inter-temporal parameters. It is shown that a mixture of mass and trace vaccination policies—the prioritized vaccination policy—is more effective than either of the two aforementioned policies.
- Subjects
BIOTERRORISM; PREVENTION of communicable diseases; EMERGENCY management; VACCINATION; EPIDEMICS
- Publication
Annals of Operations Research, 2006, Vol 148, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0254-5330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10479-006-0077-9