Ebola could be eradicated through voluntary vaccination
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Ebola could be eradicated through voluntary vaccination
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe infection with an extremely high fatality rate spread through direct contact with body fluids. A promising Ebola vaccine (rVSV-ZEBOV) may soon become universally available. We constructed a game-theoretic model of Ebola incorporating individual decisions to vaccinate. We found that if a population adopts selfishly optimal vaccination strategies, then the po...
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عنوان ژورنال: Royal Society Open Science
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2054-5703
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171591