Planning for smallpox outbreaks

Aligning Simulation Models of Smallpox Outbreaks

We aligned two fundamentally different models of smallpox transmission after a bioterrorist attack: A location-explicit multi-agent model (BioWar) and the conventional epidemiological box model, called a SIR model for Susceptible-Infected-Recovered. The purpose of this alignment is part of a greater validation process for BioWar. From this study we were able to contribute to the overall validat...

Surveillance and Control Measures during Smallpox Outbreaks

We reviewed historical data from 2 smallpox outbreaks in Liverpool and Edinburgh during the early and middle years of the 20th century to assess their contribution to developing modern strategies for response to a deliberate release of smallpox virus. Reports contemporaneous to these outbreaks provide detail on the effectiveness of public health interventions. In both outbreaks, extensive conta...

Bioterrorism and smallpox planning: information and voluntary vaccination.

Although smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980, there are fears that stocks of the virus manufactured for military purposes by the Soviet Union may have fallen into the hands of "rogue nations" or terrorists. Worries about bioterrorism have thus sparked debate about whether or not the smallpox vaccine, which can be dangerous, should be offered to the general public. Meaningful public debate ...

Smallpox Vaccination

This article was presented by the author at the Vaccination Seminar of May 26, 1972, National University Medical School.

Vaccination for Smallpox