How do epidemics spread and persist before and after introduction of a vaccine?

Monday, April 27, 2020 - 10:40 in Biology & Nature

In the most detailed study to date of epidemic spread, an international team of researchers has modeled measles dynamics based on over 40 years of data collected in England and Wales. The models — which span the prevaccination period, introduction of measles vaccination, and local elimination by vaccination in the 1990s — reveal that, before […]

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