Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror
Subtitle: An Individual-Based Computational Approach
Contributors: Joshua M. Epstein (Editor)
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780815724551
Subjects: Public health & preventive medicine; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Smallpox; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Computer simulation; Prevention; Science; Politics / Current Events; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Science/Mathematics; Government - U.S. Government; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Biotechnology; Bioterrorism
First sentence: Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and the subsequent anthrax outbreaks on the east coast of the United States, bioterror concerns have focused on smallpox.
Description: "Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror describes the scientific results and policy implications of a simulation of a smallpox epidemic in a two-town country. The model was developed by an interdisciplinary team from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Brookings Institution Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, employing agent-based and other advanced computational techniques. Such models are playing a critical role in the crafting of a national strategy for the containment of smallpox by providing public health policymakers with a variety of novel and feasible approaches to vaccination and isolation under different circumstances. The extension of these techniques to the containment of emerging pathogens, such as SARS, is discussed."--BOOK JACKET.