You might be surprised to hear that measles is 10 times more contagious than Ebola or the plague. How do epidemiologists quantify a disease’s catchiness?
SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription.
Hosted by: Stefan Chin
SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It’s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org
———-
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow
———-
Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever:
Bill & Katie Scholl, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters
———-
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow
Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow
———-
Sources:
Sources:
https://web.stanford.edu/~jhj1/teachingdocs/Jones-on-R0.pdf
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/1/17-1901_article
https://blogs.plos.org/publichealth/2014/10/29/scariest-disease-depends-define-scary/
http://www.ghsi.ca/documents/Lipsitch_et_al_Submitted20050916.pdf
https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/45490/KDPlagueThesis.pdf?sequence=9
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-unforgiving-math-that-stops-epidemics/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5294980/
http://time.com/3693618/measles-contagious/
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/transmission.html
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/diseases/child/measles.html
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/966220-overview
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/01/what-does-measles-actually-do
https://cmr.asm.org/content/cmr/29/3/449.full.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4850371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482312/
https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/index.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4169395/
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/10/15-0912_article
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-maps-how-flu-virus-moves-around-plane-180968541/
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e5d7/b306a994b40a85f845c7849d49b8321bebc5.pdf
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180808134344.htm
http://www.nfid.org/idinfo/rotavirus/faqs.html
http://www.nhsborders.scot.nhs.uk/media/197851/Rotavirus-June-2014.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=nM_X1PTccloC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&dq=chickenpox+r0&source=bl&ots=dDCneyvKda&sig=ACfU3U2ypHtqjhe1VQ5r7vTlyxrFf9yuww&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif4aOp0KjgAhWZ14MKHSJUCsEQ6AEwD3oECFUQAQ#v=onepage&q=chickenpoxr0&f=false
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722564/
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/varicella/chknpxfacts.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802755/
https://web.stanford.edu/~jhj1/teachingdocs/Jones-on-R0.pdf
Image Sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medic_in_the_Fight_Against_Ebola_in_Sierra_Leone_MOD_45158315.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ebola_Virus_TEM_PHIL_1832_lores.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Measles_virus.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bordetella_pertussis_on_Charcoal_Agar_supplemented_with_Cephalexin_-_Detail.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rotavirus_Reconstruction.jpg
Watch Now
