A first analysis of the RR variations when space and time distances vary over all the epidemic's extent highlights a main risk area, with RR > 1 (p < 0.001).
The epidemic's full extent is obscured by a lack of public health resources.
The epidemic's full extent is obscured by fear, denial, limited treatment and a lack of public health resources.
He finds a community in the grip of an alcoholism epidemic, to the extent that the government has taken control of settlements and banned outright the sale of alcohol to Aborigines.
The analysis confirms the common sense intuition that prevention is more highly leveraged early in an epidemic, although the extent to which this is true in this model is striking, particularly for campaigns designed to preserve or amplify awareness of the drug's dangers.
These plans must be based on quantitative predictions of epidemic size and extent under various conditions which, in turn, must be based on an understanding of how disease spreads between livestock premises.
Homosexual intercourse is a minor factor in most of the epidemics, though the extent of its contribution is probably underestimated due to stigma.
The meningitis belt has already expanded (48, 58, 85, 86) and countries south of the belt have suffered from epidemics to an extent not previously reported, for example, in Cameroon (46), Ghana (87) and Togo (88).
The second goal of this research was to evaluate the ability of a compartmental model based on epidemiologic principles to fit observed data from a series of epidemics and examine the extent to which seasonal variations in epidemics can be accounted for by variation in specific model parameters.
