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Volume 9, Number 8, August 2003

Detecting Bioterror Attacks by Screening Blood Donors: A Best-Case Analysis

Edward H. Kaplan,*Christopher A. Patton,† William P. FitzGerald,† Lawrence M. Wein‡
*Yale School of Management and Yale Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, †American Red Cross, Arlington, Virginia, USA;  and ‡Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

 
 
Figure 1.
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Figure 1. Probability distribution of attack detection delay for a noncontagious agent. Blood donations occur at rate k=0.05 per person per year, the screening test has a mean window period of ω=3 days, and initial attack sizes range from 100 through 1,000 infections.

 

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