Last month, the European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg made a landmark ruling on mandatory vaccination of children. After long legal battle that lasted 16 years, Grand Chamber decided, Vavricka case, Czech national law imposing statutory duty set standard vaccinations for children under age 15 does not violate right to private life as protected Convention (ECHR). Although outcome this is sur...

In this paper, we present a fuzzy approach to the Reed-Frost model for epidemic spreading taking into account uncertainties in the diagnostic of the infection. The heterogeneities in the infected group is based on the clinical signals of the individuals (symptoms, laboratorial exams, medical findings, etc.), which are incorporated into the dynamic of the epidemic. The infectivity level is time-...

During the past decade, transmission of the bacterium Kingella kingae has caused clusters of serious infections, including osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, bacteremia, endocarditis, and meningitis, among children in daycare centers in the United States, France, and Israel. These events have been characterized by high attack rates of disease and prevalence of the invasive strain among asymptomat...