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Impact of Preventive Responses to Epidemics in Rural Regions

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  • Phillip Schumm
  • Walter Schumm
  • Caterina Scoglio

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Various epidemics have arisen in rural locations through human-animal interaction, such as the H1N1 outbreak of 2009. Through collaboration with local government officials, we have surveyed a rural county and its communities and collected a dataset characterizing the rural population. From the respondents’ answers, we build a social (face-to-face) contact network. With this network, we explore the potential spread of epidemics through a Susceptible-Latent-Infected-Recovered (SLIR) disease model. We simulate an exact model of a stochastic SLIR Poisson process with disease parameters representing a typical influenza-like illness. We test vaccine distribution strategies under limited resources. We examine global and location-based distribution strategies, as a way to reach critical individuals in the rural setting. We demonstrate that locations can be identified through contact metrics for use in vaccination strategies to control contagious diseases.

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  • Phillip Schumm & Walter Schumm & Caterina Scoglio, 2013. "Impact of Preventive Responses to Epidemics in Rural Regions," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(3), pages 1-11, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0059028
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059028
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