The feasibility of age-specific travel restrictions during influenza pandemics
Open Access
- 11 November 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling
- Vol. 8 (1) , 44
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4682-8-44
Abstract
Epidemiological studies have shown that imposing travel restrictions to prevent or delay an influenza pandemic may not be feasible. To delay an epidemic substantially, an extremely high proportion of trips (~99%) would have to be restricted in a homogeneously mixing population. Influenza is, however, strongly influenced by age-dependent transmission dynamics, and the effectiveness of age-specific travel restrictions, such as the selective restriction of travel by children, has yet to be examined.Keywords
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