Influencing factors of hand, foot, and mouth disease based on structural equation modeling in Hubei, China by Wuwei Wang, Dacai Deng, Shengsheng Gong, Hongying Chen, Long Hu

“…In underdeveloped regions, the HFMD epidemic is more heavily influenced by economic factors.…”
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Comparing Supervised Machine Learning Models for Covid-19 patient detection using a Combination of Clinical and Laboratory Dataset by Narges Mohebbi, Mehdi Tutunchian, Meysam Alavi, Mehrdad Kargari, Amir Behnam Kharazmy

“…Although common strategies including prevention, diagnosis, and care are necessary to curb this epidemic, early and accurate diagnosis can play an important role in reducing the speed of the epidemic. …”
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Malaria survey data and geospatial suitability mapping for understanding spatial and temporal variations of risk across Kenya by Caroline Kioko, Justine Blanford

“…Knowledge about malaria was 82 % in lake endemic, 9 % in highland epidemic, 6 % in coastal endemic, and 3 % in seasonal zone. …”
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Predicting the Spatial-Temporal Distribution of Human Brucellosis in Europe Based on Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Network by Li Shen, Chenghao Jiang, Minghao Sun, Xuan Qiu, Jiaqi Qian, Shuxuan Song, Qingwu Hu, Heilili Yelixiati, Kun Liu

“…This paper indicates that the epidemic of brucellosis in major European countries has statistical periodic characteristics, and in the same cycle, brucellosis has the characteristics of piecewise trend. …”
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Investigation of vitamin D deficiency in girls with growth and development variations—a single center study by Panwang Huang, Panwang Huang, Beilei Zeng, Beilei Zeng, Feng Ren, Yuan Zhou, Yuan Zhou, Ye Li, Ye Li, Yinyin Huang, Yinyin Huang, Xingyu Liu, Xingyu Liu, Jiaxiu Zhou, Jiaxiu Zhou, Yaping Ma, Yaping Ma

“…Besides, the girls were divided into pre-epidemic and post-epidemic groups by the occurrence of the COVID-19 epidemic. …”
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Profit, Porn, and Protease Inhibitors: Ronnie Burk’s Radical Activism in “Post-AIDS” San Francisco by Victoria Carroll

“…A demonstration against the commodification of HIV/AIDS and its newly emerging treatments, the image indexed the shifting responses to the epidemic in San Francisco at the beginning of the twenty-first century. …”
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The Effects of Vertical Transmission on the Spread of HIV/AIDS in the Presence of Treatment by Moatlhodi Kgosimore, Edward M. Lungu

“…We haveconcluded that $R_v^*$ is dependent on the current prevalence ratebut that a significant proportion of infected juveniles receivingtreatment can reach adulthood without causing an epidemic.…”
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Host protein PRPS2 interact with the non-structural protein p17 of Avian Reovirus and promote viral replication by Hu Xiaomiao, Zhao Ruihong, Li Wei, Pan Xiaocheng, Dai Yin, Wu Huimin, Wu Yantao, Zhang Chengcheng

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Strengthening research preparedness for crises: lessons from Norwegian government agencies in using randomized trials and quasi-experimental methods to evaluate public policy inter... by Unni Gopinathan, Ingeborg Elgersma, Therese Dalsbø, Mona Bjørbæk, Atle Fretheim

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Psychological Status and Related Factors in Medical Isolated Persons during Outbreak of COVID-19 by Qin WANG, LI Li, Xia ZHOU, Zhimei LIU, Bingshan GUO, Renqi DONG

“…Objective:To evaluate the mental health status of the residents in the epidemic area of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and analyze its influencing factors, so as to provide evidence for psychological intervention timely for the quarantine population in special period.Methods:A total of 130 residents in COVID-19 epidemic area of Jinan were collected with general data and their anxiety/depression state was assessed through an online questionnaire from February 9th to 11th,2020. …”
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Spatio-temporal distribution of Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya in Cali, Colombia: 2014-2016 by José F. Fuertes-Bucheli, Gladys Pérez-Arizabaleta, Andrea Quiroz-Caicedo, Robin A. Olaya, Hoover O. León-Giraldo, Robinson Pacheco-López

“… Introduction: Emerging and re-emerging arboviral infections have become a public health challenge in the Americas due to their epidemic potential. Objective: To determine the spatio-temporal distribution of the dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses during an epidemic period in Cali, Colombia. …”
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TRENCH FEVER AS WAR INFECTION by Nataliya Vynograd, Zoriana Vasylyshyn, Lyudmyla Kozak, Ihor Chaklosh, Iryna Baidalka, Uliana Shul, Iryna Chaplyk-Chyzho

“…The intensity of the epidemic process of trench fever correlates with socio-economic disruptions and wars; it is accompanied by worsening of living conditions and impoverishment of the population. …”
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Diet, Physical Activity, Weight Status, and Culture in a Sample of Children from the Developing World by Pamela S. Gaskin, Pamela Lai, Devon Guy, JaDon Knight, Maria Jackson, Anders L. Nielsen

“…Barbados, a small developing state at the end of the nutrition transition, faces an obesity epidemic. Although there is hope of stemming the epidemic in childhood, no descriptions of children's dietary and physical activity (PA) patterns are available for planning purposes. …”
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Vector control for the Chikungunya disease by Yves Dumont, Frederic Chiroleu

“…In the present paper, we asked whether it would have been possibleto contain or stop the epidemic of 2006 through appropriate mosquito controltools. …”
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Stability Analysis of SIRS Model considering Pulse Vaccination and Elimination Disturbance by Yanli Ma, Xuewu Zuo

“…The results show that in order to stop the disease epidemic, it is necessary to choose the appropriate vaccination rate and elimination rate and the appropriate impulsive period.…”
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China’s policies: post-COVID-19 challenges for the older population by Xuezhi Wei, Guoqing Han, Quansheng Wang

“…On 7 December 2022, the State Council of China released ‘Measures to Further Optimize the Implementation of the Prevention and Control of the New Coronavirus Epidemic’. The previous three-year dynamic zero epidemic prevention policy was then replaced with a full liberalization policy. …”
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Global Stability of a Host-Vector Model for Pine Wilt Disease with Nonlinear Incidence Rate by Kwang Sung Lee, Abid Ali Lashari

“…Based on classical epidemic models, this paper considers a deterministic epidemic model for the spread of the pine wilt disease which has vector mediated transmission. …”
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Assessing the Impact of TASO on HIV Persons: A case Study of Kambuga Hospital. by Rukundo, Amos

“…Uganda is one of the sub-Saharan African countries worst hit by the HIV/ AIDS epidemic, with over 1.2 million people infected and an HIV prevalence rate of about 6.4 %. …”
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Protective or limited? Maternal antibodies and RSV-associated lower respiratory tract infection in hospitalized infants aged 28-90 days by Shuanglian Li, Shuanglian Li, Chenghao Mei, Chenghao Mei, Sainan Chen, Chenglin Wang, Chenglin Wang, Yelei Gao, Yelei Gao, Jinhua Ma, Jinhua Ma, Li Zhong, Li Zhong, Tingting Luo, Tingting Luo, Xin Zhao, Xin Zhao, Huaqin Bu, Huaqin Bu, Ying Lyu, Ying Lyu, Xiaohu Kuang, Zhenxing Jia, Xiaoli Wang, Yuqing Wang, Daiyin Tian, Daiyin Tian, Daiyin Tian

“…Since this prospective study only included data from RSV epidemic, we retrospectively reviewed medical records from the Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University for the years 2019 to 2023 (n=3467) to analyze population characteristics during both RSV epidemic and non-epidemic periods, using the same inclusion and exclusion criteria.ResultThere were no significant differences in RSV Pre-F IgG, Post-F IgG, or RSV A or B neutralizing antibody levels between the RSV infected and non-infected groups during the epidemic. …”
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Continuous detection of Chikungunya Virus in a passive surveillance system in southern Thailand, 2012-2019. by Aaron Farmer, Kathryn B Anderson, Darunee Buddhari, Thanaporn Hortiwakul, Boonsri Charernmak, Butsaya Thaisomboonsuk, Tippa Wongstitwilairoong, Taweewun Hunsawong, Chonticha Klungthong, Piyawan Chinnawirotpisan, Sarunyou Chusri, Stefan Fernandez

“…CHIKV vaccines are in development, but their evaluation is limited by the unpredictability of CHIKV transmission, which classically manifests as explosive epidemics separated by variable interepidemic periods. …”
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