Predicting, issuing early warnings, and assessing risks associated with unnatural epidemics
(UEs) present significant challenges. These tasks also represent key areas of focus within …

Purpose–This study aims to analyze the epidemic modeling applications and policy‐making
strategies for six different infectious diseases in a number of countries, thus comparing and …

While geography is not the only factor to shape human behavior, its influence on terrorists'
motivations, behaviors, options, and activities is a primary consideration in understanding …

A key issue in infectious disease epidemiology is to identify and predict geographic sites of
epidemic establishment that contribute to onward spread, especially in the context of …

The causative agent of Q fever, Coxiella burnetii, has the potential to be developed for use in
biological warfare and it is classified as a bioterrorism threat agent by the Centers for …

In a novel approach, the standard birth–death process is extended to incorporate a
fundamental mechanism undergone by intracellular bacteria, phagocytosis. The model …

Background: Over the last 30 years, there have been a number of reported Legionnaires'
disease outbreaks resulting from the release of causative organisms from aerosol-producing …

During emerging disease outbreaks, public health, emergency management officials and
decision-makers increasingly rely on epidemiological models to forecast outbreak …

Back-calculation is a process whereby generally unobservable features of an event leading
to a disease outbreak can be inferred either in real-time or shortly after the end of the …

Vector-borne transmission of Chagas disease has become an urban problem in the city of
Arequipa, Peru, yet the debilitating symptoms that can occur in the chronic stage of the …