Analyzing bioterror; response logistics: The case of smallpox.

DOI10.1016/S0025-5564(03)00090-7zbMath1035.92039WikidataQ52011478 ScholiaQ52011478MaRDI QIDQ1408745

Lawrence M. Wein, David L. Craft, Edward H. Kaplan

Publication date: 25 September 2003

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Queueing; Bioterror; Contact tracing; Mass vaccination; response logistics; Smallpox; Traced vaccination

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92D30: Epidemiology

92C60: Medical epidemiology

65L99: Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations

34A99: General theory for ordinary differential equations

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