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Scholars make a case for mass vaccination.(Brief Article)
2002 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Yale University researchers say mass vaccination in the event that the smallpox virus is released in the U.S. would result in many fewer deaths and eradicate more quickly any resulting epidemic than the current federal plan.
The interim response policy now, noted E.H. Kaplan and colleagues, Yale University's School of Management, "is to isolate symptomatic cases, trace and vaccinate their contacts, quarantine febrile contacts, but vaccinate more broadly if the outbreak cannot be contained by these measures."
Kaplan's group ran "this traced vaccination policy in a smallpox disease transmission model to estimate the number of cases and deaths that would result from an attack in a large urban area."
According to the model, "mass vaccination results in both far fewer deaths and much faster epidemic eradication over a wide range of disease and intervention policy parameters, including those believed most likely, and ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Scholars make a case for mass vaccination.(Brief Article)