Quarantine Risk Analysis

The application of risk assessment in animal quarantine in Australia.

This paper describes the ways in which the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) uses risk assessment and risk management. Taking into account the need to meet both national and international obligations, AQIS has adopted a more systematic and transparent approach to import risk assessment by employing a procedure designed to examine each point along the importation chain at which...

Etymologia: Quarantine

Pulse quarantine strategy of internet worm propagation: Modeling and analysis

Article history: Available online 6 September 2011 0045-7906/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd doi:10.1016/j.compeleceng.2011.07.009 q Reviews processed and approved for publication ⇑ Corresponding author at: College of Information E-mail addresses: [email protected], haveb Worms can spread throughout the Internet very quickly and are a great security threat. Constant quarantine strategy...

Quarantine Stressing Voluntary Compliance

A 1-day table-top exercise in San Diego, California, in December 2004 emphasized voluntary compliance with home quarantine to control an emerging infectious disease outbreak. The exercise heightened local civilian-military collaboration in public health emergency management. Addressing concerns about lost income by residents in quarantine was particularly challenging.

Predicting Quarantine Failure Rates

Preemptive quarantine through contact-tracing effectively controls emerging infectious diseases. Occasionally this quarantine fails, however, and infected persons are released. The probability of quarantine failure is typically estimated from disease-specific data. Here a simple, exact estimate of the failure rate is derived that does not depend on disease-specific parameters. This estimate is ...