TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimal control strategy for prevention of avian influenza pandemic
AU - Jung, Eunok
AU - Iwami, Shingo
AU - Takeuchi, Yasuhiro
AU - Jo, Tae Chang
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the editor and anonymous referee for very helpful suggestions and comments which improved the quality of this paper and study. Jung's work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government (MOEHRD, Basic Research Promotion Fund) (KRF-2007-531-C00015) and Shingo's work was supported by Research Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists.
PY - 2009/9/21
Y1 - 2009/9/21
N2 - The spread of H5N1 virus to Europe and continued human infection in Southeast Asia have heightened pandemic concern. Although, fortunately, sustained human-to-human transmissions have not been reported yet, it is said that a pandemic virus which can be easily transmitted among humans certainly emerges in the future. In this study, we extended the previous studies for the prevention of the pandemic influenza to evaluate the time-dependent optimal prevention policies, which are associated with elimination policy and quarantine policy, considering its execution cost. Actually, the execution cost affects the optimal strategy of prevention policies and the prevention of the disease spread. We found that the quarantine policy is very important rather than the elimination policy during the disease spread, even if the unit execution cost of the quarantine policy is more expensive than that of the elimination policy. And also, the change of the unit execution cost does affect the total cumulative cost of the optimal prevention policies but does not affect the relative frequency of each cumulative execution cost. Furthermore, interestingly, we revealed that an optimal strategy to reduce the number of total infected humans might increase a chance of invadability of the mutant influenza.
AB - The spread of H5N1 virus to Europe and continued human infection in Southeast Asia have heightened pandemic concern. Although, fortunately, sustained human-to-human transmissions have not been reported yet, it is said that a pandemic virus which can be easily transmitted among humans certainly emerges in the future. In this study, we extended the previous studies for the prevention of the pandemic influenza to evaluate the time-dependent optimal prevention policies, which are associated with elimination policy and quarantine policy, considering its execution cost. Actually, the execution cost affects the optimal strategy of prevention policies and the prevention of the disease spread. We found that the quarantine policy is very important rather than the elimination policy during the disease spread, even if the unit execution cost of the quarantine policy is more expensive than that of the elimination policy. And also, the change of the unit execution cost does affect the total cumulative cost of the optimal prevention policies but does not affect the relative frequency of each cumulative execution cost. Furthermore, interestingly, we revealed that an optimal strategy to reduce the number of total infected humans might increase a chance of invadability of the mutant influenza.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.05.031
DO - 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.05.031
M3 - Article
C2 - 19501107
AN - SCOPUS:68949184844
SN - 0022-5193
VL - 260
SP - 220
EP - 229
JO - Journal of Theoretical Biology
JF - Journal of Theoretical Biology
IS - 2
ER -
