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SUBMITTER: Oraby T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4078885 | biostudies-other | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Oraby Tamer T Thampi Vivek V Bauch Chris T CT
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20140212 1780
Mathematical models that couple disease dynamics and vaccinating behaviour often assume that the incentive to vaccinate disappears if disease prevalence is zero. Hence, they predict that vaccine refusal should be the rule, and elimination should be difficult or impossible. In reality, countries with non-mandatory vaccination policies have usually been able to maintain elimination or very low incidence of paediatric infectious diseases for long periods of time. Here, we show that including injunc ...[more]