Abstract In the absence of drugs and vaccines, policymakers use non-pharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing to decrease rates disease-causing contact, with aim reducing or delaying epidemic peak. These measures carry economic costs, so societies may be unable maintain them for more than a short period time. Intervention policy design often relies on numerical simulations models, ...

Tiered social distancing policies have been adopted by many governments to mitigate the harmful consequences of COVID-19. Such a number well-established features, i.e. they are short-term, adaptive (to changing epidemiological conditions), and based on multiplicity indicators prevailing epidemic activity. Here, we use ideas from Behavioural Epidemiology represent tiered in an SEIRS model using ...

twenty patients, a family, their neighbors, and friends; with lesions suspicious of ringworm infection, were referred to us within a period of 80 days. the source of infection was found to be 3 persian cats (a mother and two kittens) living with the family. the cats had multiple lesions around their nose and on abdomen which reveales the prevalence of cutaneous fungi both on direct microscopic ...