Its user-friendly interface facilitates fairly complex modelling, offering public health practitioners the possibility to rapidly investigate the burden of epidemics, or to utilise the same statistical approaches to set epidemic thresholds for prospective surveillance.
In the military setting, and especially in the basic training setting, epidemic meningococcal disease remains controlled due to a robust immunization program.
In his book "Biohazard" (Random House, 1999), Dr. Alibek said China had developed biological weapons and had once suffered an accident at a secret germ plant, setting off two epidemics.
But Dr. Ebright noted that the deadly SARS virus recently escaped from BSL-4 and BSL-3 labs in Taiwan, Singapore and Beijing, in each case setting off minor epidemics that killed or sickened people.
But if the technology for picking out passengers capable of transmitting deadly pathogens and setting off killer epidemics does not exist today, should we not be pursuing it as energetically as we do, the technology for stopping terrorists from boarding a plane?
That sets the epidemic apart from purely political upheavals, like the one in Tiananmen Square in 1989, when the leaders disagreed on how to handle the protests.
Early detection of outbreaks allows public health authorities to set up epidemic investigations and control measures sooner.
More than 15 months after the United Nations received a legal claim seeking to hold peacekeeping troops responsible for setting off the epidemic, its lawyers declared the claim "not receivable," citing diplomatic immunity.
The administration has doubled down on the Bush-era enforcement strategy, unleashing the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement agencies and setting loose an epidemic of misery, racial profiling and needless arrests.
"Get 'em up on your shoulders, boys — we're getting out of here," he instructed the men in the crowd before the final song; they dutifully hoisted up their female friends, setting off another epidemic of shirt lifting at a concert that was beginning to feel like "Porky's" with a rootsier soundtrack.
