Skip the trip: air travelers' behavioral responses to pandemic influenza.

Theory suggests that human behavior has implications for disease spread. We examine the hypothesis that individuals engage in voluntary defensive behavior during an epidemic. We estimate the number of passengers missing previously purchased flights as a function of concern for swine flu or A/H1N1 in...

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Main Authors: Eli P Fenichel, Nicolai V Kuminoff, Gerardo Chowell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23526970/pdf/?tool=EBI