Sunmi Lee

TL;DR: This study suggests that the South Korean outbreak followed a similar progression to previously described hospital clusters involving coronaviruses, with early super-spreading events generating a disproportionately large number of secondary infections, and the transmission potential diminishing greatly in subsequent generations.

TL;DR: The implementation of optimal control strategies involving antiviral treatment and/or isolation measures can reduce significantly the number of clinical cases of influenza and can reduce the pressures placed on the health care infrastructure by a pandemic reducing the stress put on the system during epidemic peaks.

TL;DR: It turned out to be the intensive isolation and quarantine interventions that were the most critical factors that prevented the spread of the MERS outbreak.

TL;DR: A mathematical model that incorporates age-structured transmission dynamics of influenza to evaluate optimal vaccination strategies in the epidemiological context of the Spring 2009 A (H1N1) pandemic in Mexico indicates that optimal age-specific vaccination rates are significantly associated with the amount of vaccines available and the timing of vaccination.

TL;DR: Optimal control theory is used to identify and evaluate patch-specific control measures aimed at reducing dengue prevalence in humans and vectors at a minimal cost and focuses on intervention that target areas where individuals spend "most" time or where transmissibility is higher turn out to be optimal.