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Modeling Influenza: Pandemics and Seasonal Epidemics

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Mathematical Epidemiology

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics ((LNMBIOS,volume 1945))

We describe and analyze compartmental models for influenza, including pre-epidemic vaccination and antiviral treatment. The analysis is based on the final size relation for compartmental epidemic models. We consider models of increasing complexity and compare their predictions using parameter values appropriate to the 1957 pandemic.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 1984, Mathematics Road, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2, Canada

    Fred Brauer

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2, Canada

    Fred Brauer

  2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, 3060 STN CSC, Victoria, B.C. V8W 3R4, Canada

    Pauline van den Driessche

  3. Center for Disease Modeling Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada

    Jianhong Wu

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Brauer, F. (2008). Modeling Influenza: Pandemics and Seasonal Epidemics. In: Brauer, F., van den Driessche, P., Wu, J. (eds) Mathematical Epidemiology. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1945. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78911-6_12

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