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Title Epidemiologic determinants for modeling pneumonic plague outbreaks
Author Raymond Gani and Steve Leach
Date 2004-10
Description We provide a quantitative assessment of transmissibility based on past outbreaks that shows that the average number of secondary cases per primary case (R0) was 1.3 (variance = 3.1), assuming a geometric probability distribution, prior to outbreak control measures.
Keywords pneumonic plaque, transmission, flea, rodent, bubonic
URL http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/4/03-0509_article
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