Global reduction in measles mortality

Title: Global reduction in measles mortality
Creator: Durrheim, David N.
Relation: The Lancet Vol. 380, Issue 9850
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61749-8
Publisher: The Lancet Publishing Group
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: Emily Simons and colleagues' insightful Article (June 9, p 2173)1 draws highly relevant conclusions for measles control. Simons and colleagues rightly take the S/N (proportion of susceptibles in the total population) as directly affecting transmission. However, if, as we assume, they have used first-order kinetics for disease transmission and arrived at a form similar to that of annual proportion of deaths in a fixed population, the power of “e” must be a constant multiplied by time “t”, which equals 1 year here. Yet S/N can never be expected to remain constant, especially for a highly infectious disease such as measles.2 With the progressing infection, the S/N itself decreases substantially over 1 year.
Subject: measles; measles control
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067123
Identifier: uon:18283
Identifier: ISSN:0140-6736
Language: eng

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