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SUBMITTER: Pelletier ST
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3627490 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tropical animal health and production 20120403 7
State-scale and premises-scale gravity models for the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) in Nigeria and Ghana were used to provide a basis for risk maps for future epidemics and to compare and rank plausible culling and vaccination strategies for control. Maximum likelihood methods were used to fit the models to the 2006-2007 outbreaks. The sensitivity and specificity of the state-scale model-generated probabilities that any given state would be involved in an epidemic were each ...[more]