The collision between the politics of H.I.V./AIDS and the pathology of infectious disease was devastating then; there are signs now that a similar conflict may threaten public health in the midst of the current global TB epidemic — with implications that extend well beyond that one disease.
The complexity of the MENA epidemic has implications for prevention strategies, as the development of an effective vaccine would need to be tailored to the multiple circulating subtypes, the distribution of which has still not been mapped out in detail.
Whereas other vector-borne diseases such as malaria and yellow fever have been well studied in Africa, dengue needs more attention with regard to identification of epidemics, clinical implications, and disease management.
"There's an increasing understanding that the epidemic has catastrophic implications in many developing countries," Julian Fleet, a senior adviser on law and ethics at the United Nations AIDS agency, said in a telephone interview from Geneva.
Systems science provides a framework for organising the complexity of forces driving the obesity epidemic and has important implications for policy makers.
We are having a shared, population-level hallucination about the implications of epidemic obesity; or Prof. Campos is wrong.
Furthermore, our results have important implications for epidemic models that often assume that the timing of and dynamics of pathogenesis is independent of host body size, metabolism, or pathogen transport times [3].
While resistance emergence is more likely within such a strategy, the implications for epidemic control are strongly dependent on the relative fitness of mutant strains, with the potential for either reduced or extended delays to an uncontrolled outbreak.
In contrast, the maximal rate of prophylaxis delivery was estimated to be an order of magnitude less than the optimal rate of
Understanding the DENV evolutionary mechanism underlying the recurring dengue outbreaks has important implications for epidemic prediction and disease control.
