The Effects of Mass Transportation During a Deliberate Release of Smallpox

摘要: Since the attack on world trade center, in New York City September nth, possibility of bio-terrorist attacks major cities has received continuous attention. The deliberate release smallpox, a deadly virus, still available selected U.S. and Russian laboratories, is source great concern. Ring vaccination current official response policy event smallpox release. Edward H. Kaplan, David L. Craft and, Lawrence M. Wein argue that mass more viable solution would optimize resource usage minimize mortality rate. In this paper, we model dynamics an idealized public transportation system city. city divided into n neighborhoods stratified by proportion individuals who use transportation. Two levels mixing are introduced via within neighborhood between activity levels. Transmission driven interactions under assumption proportionate mixing. We complement our theoretical work with agent based for