Travel-related and mobility restriction policies are often considered to be the first line of defence against the spread of an emerging infectious disease. The wide range of implementation scenarios of such policies calls for models that are able to anticipate their actual effectiveness. We tackle this problem in the recent publication:
The deplyoment of the Influenzanet platform, for the web-based surveillance of influenza-like illness in UK during the 2009 pandemic, is extensively presented in the new publication:
Tilston NL, Eames KT, Paolotti D, Ealden T, Edmunds WJ, BMC Public Health 2010, 10:650 (2010).
The paper presents the Internet-based monitoring of ILI launched near the peak of the first wave of the UK H1N1v influenza pandemic. Authors compares the recorded ILI incidence with physician-recorded incidence and an estimate of the true number of cases over the course of the epidemic. They also compare overall attack rates. The effect of using different ILI definitions and alternative denominator assumptions on incidence estimates is explored.
The Second Workshop “Dynamical Systems applied to Biology and Natural Sciences” will be held at the Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Fundamentais (CMAF), Lisbon University, in Portugal, from February 2 to 4, 2011.
The workshop has both theoretical and practical applications and the abstracts included in the program cover research topics in population dynamics, eco-epidemiology, epidemiology of infectious diseases and molecular and antigenic evolution.
Among the organizers are Nico Stollenwerk and Sebastian Ballesteros, from CMAF, Lisbon University, partner of the WP1 of the Epiwork project.
