Modeling Community Containment for Pandemic Influenza: A Letter Report (2006)
As the influenza virus continues to evolve and develop resistance to available pharmaceutical drugs, scientists and policymakers are concerned that the world may be hit with a pandemic that cannot be contained by vaccines and antivirals. If this is the case, nonpharmaceutical community containment strategies may be vital to helping protect the public against influenza outbreaks. The Institute of Medicine convened a committee to examine influenza epidemiology, existing containment models, and historical responses to influenza pandemics in order to assess the utility of community wide intervention strategies and make recommendations to policymakers. Modeling Community Containment for Pandemic Influenza is a letter summarizing this committee meeting.
