@article{ref1,
title="Epidemics of panic during a bioterrorist attack--a mathematical model",
journal="Medical hypotheses",
year="2009",
author="Radosavljevic, Vladan and Radunovic, Desanka and Belojević, Goran",
volume="73",
number="3",
pages="342-346",
abstract="A bioterrorist attacks usually cause epidemics of panic in a targeted population. We have presented epidemiologic aspect of this phenomenon as a three-component model--host, information on an attack and social network. We have proposed a mathematical model of panic and counter-measures as the function of time in a population exposed to a bioterrorist attack. The model comprises ordinary differential equations and graphically presented combinations of the equations parameters. Clinically, we have presented a model through a sequence of psychic conditions and disorders initiated by an act of bioterrorism. This model might be helpful for an attacked community to timely and properly apply counter-measures and to minimize human mental suffering during a bioterrorist attack.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-9877",
doi="10.1016/j.mehy.2008.12.055",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2008.12.055"
}