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Was there a flu season in paleolithic times?
In temperate climates, flu viruses rise and recede with winter. This is for a number of reasons, including lack of vitamin D production in darkness (which weakens the immune system), dry air (humidity ...
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Fluctuations in disease burden of respiratory viruses (especially influenza/coronaviruses)
Compared to peaks in terms of disease burden (morbidity and mortality, or incidence of severely symptomatic cases and deaths caused by a viral strain within a population), is the relatively light ...
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Do partial (nighttime) curfews curb the spread of epidemics (and via which mechanisms)? [closed]
Do partial (e.g., nighttime) curfews curb the spread of epidemics?
What is the (epidemiological) mechanism by which partial curfews curb the spread of epidemics?
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COVID-19 deaths by year of birth?
Are there (global, country, etc.) data of COVID-19 deaths (or hospitalization) by year of birth? I was able to found them only by "age group", the meaning of this being usually an interval ...
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How to model social structure in SIR models
I refer to J.H. Jones' Notes on R0.
More details in this question at Mathematics SE: How does the reproduction number depend on characteristics of the physical contact graph of a population?
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The role of duration of infectiousness in SIR models
I refer to J.H. Jones' Notes on R0.
The basic SIR model - as described in Jones' Notes - considers three factors that make up the reproduction number:
$\tau$ = the transmissibility (i.e., ...
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Do we know if dogs are asymptomatic transmiters of sars-cov-2?
Dogs do not use mask when going for a walk nor they observe the security distance. On the contrary, they frequently join their noses, and put their noses where other dogs had put them before or had ...
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Why does the SARS-CoV2 virus not remain infectious forever? Or does it?
Given that the majority of biologists do not currently consider viruses to be alive, a virus can never die. It can, however, get destroyed by long exposures to soapy water, alcohol, and apparently ...
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Can swarming locusts act as a vector for any human pathogens?
What human pathogens can the locusts currently swarming in Africa act as a vector for?
E.g. can the locust swarm 'become a reservoir for' SARS-CoV-2? Measles? Ebola?
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Are specific primers or detectors, or both, used in COVID-19 tests?
I am trying to learn about the rRT-PCR testing procedure used to test for COVID-19, but I am slightly confused on one point. Are highly specific primers used with a non-specific detector, or are ...
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How likely is to develop an infection from a single virion entering a single cell? [closed]
Is there any research (including mathematical or computational modelling) regarding how likely it is to infect an organism starting from a single virion entering a single cell?
I am interested in any ...
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Do we know of any "species ending bugs"?
Are we aware of a "bug" (virus, bacterium, prion, ...) that has completely exterminated an entire species? Either through direct observation or maybe some form of archeological evidence? If not, are ...
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Is COVID-19 more deadly than swine flu?
I have a question about the novel coronavirus and swine flu.
How do the death rates compare between the two diseases?
How do the transmissions and rate of transmission compare?
Was a vaccine ...
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Is a nightly curfew an effective intervention strategy for limiting the spread of an infectious disease? [closed]
The governing bodies of several geographic areas hit by disease outbreaks will sometimes impose a nightly curfew on their citizens, restricting or limiting the ability of their citizens from going ...
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Is there a Zipf law in epidemiology?
Are there cases where Zipf Law appears in epidemiology?
I ranked provinces of China by their coronavirus confirmed cases (2020-01-30 14:29):
4586, 428, 311, 278, 277, 200, 165, 162, 145, 142, 129,...
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Where can I find disease diagnosis datasets?
For an epidemiological study, I'm looking for datasets for any kind of vector-borne disease (i.e. West Nile Virus, Malaria, etc.), or any parasites that are dependent on intermediate hosts (i.e. ...
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Is it possible to contract the plague by kissing a wild chipmunk?"
I watched this cute video and I came to conclusion that the lady in the video is putting her life in danger. She kisses a wild chipmunk.
As I know, they have fleas, and fleas have a black plague. ...
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Are Measles patients infectious until death?
I'm examining a dataset of a measles outbreak, and for each patient I have the date of first appearance of symptoms $t_1$, date of appearance of rash $t_2$, and if applicable, date of death $t_d$. ...
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Which infectious disease would increase global life expectancy the most if eradicated [closed]
In the 1700s it was estimated, by Daniel Bernoulli, that wiping out smallpox would increase global life expectancy by over three years. If we could wipe out one infectious disease today, which would ...
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Is the basic reproduction number unique?
Given any epidemic model of an infectious disease, there are various ways of computing a basic reproduction number($R_0$) such as; the next-generation method, survival function, largest eigenvalue of ...
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