Comparing nonpharmaceutical interventions for containing emerging epidemics
Comparing nonpharmaceutical interventions for containing emerging epidemics
Strategies for containing an emerging infectious disease outbreak must be nonpharmaceutical when drugs or vaccines for the pathogen do not yet exist or are unavailable. The success of these nonpharmaceutical strategies will depend on not only the effectiveness of isolation measures but also the epidemiological characteristics of the infection. However, …