"Herd Immunity": A Rough Guide

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2011
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Abstract
The term "herd immunity" is widely used but carries a variety of meanings [1–7]. Some authors use it to describe the proportion immune among individuals in a population. Others use it with reference to a particular threshold proportion of immune individuals that should lead to a decline in incidence of infection. Still others use it to refer to a pattern of immunity that should protect a population from invasion of a new infection. A common implication of the term is that the risk of infection among susceptible individuals in a population is reduced by the presence and proximity of immune individuals (this is sometimes referred to as "indirect protection" or a "herd effect"). We provide brief historical, epidemiologic, theoretical, and pragmatic public health perspectives on this concept.
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Authors P E Fine, Ken Eames, DL Heymann
Journal Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Year 2011
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10.1093/cid/cir007
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https://academic.oup.com/cid/article-pdf/52/7/911/847338/cir007.pdf
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