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q-bio.PE2019
Could short-lasting non-specific immunity explain seasonal spacing of epidemic diseases?
Gorm Gruner Jensen, Florian Uekermann, Kim Sneppen +1
Common respiratory viruses cause seasonal epidemics in sequential patterns. The underlying mechanisms for this pattern have been debated for some time. For influenza, contenders in…
q-bio.PE2014★ 6 cited
The Western Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic exhibits both global exponential and local polynomial growth rates
Gerardo Chowell, Cécile Viboud, James M. Hyman +1
Background: While many infectious disease epidemics are initially characterized by an exponential growth in time, we show that district-level Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks in…