Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror: An Individual-Based Computational Approach

by Ramesh M. Singa, Donald S. Burke, Joshua M. Epstein, et al.

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In the United States, routine smallpox vaccination ended in 1972. The level of immunity remaining in the U.S. population is uncertain, but is generally assumed to be quite low. Smallpox is a deadly and infectious pathogen with a fatality rate of 30 percent. If smallpox were successfully deployed as an agent of bioterrorism today, the public health and economic consequences could be devastating. Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815724551
• ISBN13: 9780815724551
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"