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SUBMITTER: Day T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7109638 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Day Troy T Park Andrew A Madras Neal N Gumel Abba A Wu Jianhong J
American journal of epidemiology 20060118 5
The isolation and treatment of symptomatic individuals, coupled with the quarantining of individuals that have a high risk of having been infected, constitute two commonly used epidemic control measures. Although isolation is probably always a desirable public health measure, quarantine is more controversial. Mass quarantine can inflict significant social, psychological, and economic costs without resulting in the detection of many infected individuals. The authors use probabilistic models to de ...[more]