Because experimental approaches to epidemic interventions are often impractical, and in some cases unethical, mathematical models can provide otherwise unobtainable insights on the spread and control of disease.
Because arsenic exposure is widespread and diabetes prevalence is reaching epidemic proportions, experimental studies using arsenic concentrations relevant to human exposure and prospective epidemiologic studies measuring arsenic biomarkers and appropriately assessing diabetes should be a research priority.
The talk was no longer of whether to trial experimental drugs in the Ebola epidemic, but which ones to choose.
Generally speaking, medical researchers often use observation and experimental methods to study the behavior of epidemics.
If the experimental treatment works, it could blunt the epidemic's devastating impact on oaks and on tan oaks, which are not technically oak trees but share many of their characteristics.
Samba Sow, director general of the center for vaccine development in Bamako, noted at the press conference that the experimental vaccines could indirectly help control the epidemic by calming fears of health care workers.
Tests have failed to support a theory that the worldwide AIDS epidemic was touched off because an experimental oral polio vaccine used in Africa more than 40 years ago was made from chimpanzee tissue, scientists reported yesterday in London.
Martin Delaney, a prominent advocate for AIDS patients who challenged the government and drug companies to expedite access to experimental treatments in the early days of the epidemic, died Friday at his home in San Rafael, Calif.
Six years into the epidemic, there wasn't even an experimental drug out to take after thousands and thousands of deaths.
Sheep and goats were also exposed to BSE contaminated MBM during the BSE epidemic and proved to be susceptible after experimental oral exposure [ 18].
