- Title
- Global reduction in measles mortality
- Creator
- Durrheim, David N.
- Relation
- The Lancet Vol. 380, Issue 9850
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61749-8
- Publisher
- The Lancet Publishing Group
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Emily Simons and colleagues' insightful Article (June 9, p 2173)1 draws highly relevant conclusions for measles control. Simons and colleagues rightly take the S/N (proportion of susceptibles in the total population) as directly affecting transmission. However, if, as we assume, they have used first-order kinetics for disease transmission and arrived at a form similar to that of annual proportion of deaths in a fixed population, the power of “e” must be a constant multiplied by time “t”, which equals 1 year here. Yet S/N can never be expected to remain constant, especially for a highly infectious disease such as measles.2 With the progressing infection, the S/N itself decreases substantially over 1 year.
- Subject
- measles; measles control
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067123
- Identifier
- uon:18283
- Identifier
- ISSN:0140-6736
- Language
- eng
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