Human monkeypox (mpox) virus is a viral zoonosis that belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus
of the Poxviridae family, which presents with similar symptoms as those seen in human …

As of June 8, 2022, more than 1250 confirmed monkeypox cases have been reported from
28 countries considered as non-endemic, including Canada, Portugal, Spain, The UK, and …

Social distancing measures (SDMs) are community-level interventions that aim to reduce
person-to-person contacts in the community. SDMs were a major part of the responses first …

Background Multiple factors shape the temporal dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Quantifying their relative contributions is key to guide future control strategies. Our objective …

Introduction Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI) and ring vaccination (ie, vaccination that
primarily targets contacts and contacts of contacts of Ebola cases) are currently used to …

Background Restrictions on international travel were widely applied to contain cross-border
COVID-19 diffusion, while such applications varied globally, and little was known about their …

Objectives This paper aims to measure the impact of the implemented nonpharmaceutical
interventions (NPIs) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) during the pandemic using …

(1) Background: COVID-19 is still affecting people's daily lives. In the past two years of
epidemic control, a traffic control policy has been an important way to block the spread of the …

COVID-19 epidemic models with constant transmission rate cannot capture the patterns of
the infection data in the presence of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions …

We report the estimated size and duration of a monkeypox outbreak in a simulated
population of 50 million people with socio-economic-and demographic characteristics …