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cord-227268-8k9zaqsy	Wick, W. David	Stopping the SuperSpreader Epidemic: the lessons from SARS (with, perhaps, applications to MERS)	2013-08-29		.txt	text/plain	6789	297	55	This gave rise to the theory that HIV is an SS epidemic; the candidates for the superpreaders are: (a) persons in the primary retroviral-infection period that lasts a few weeks, who have a thousand times the level of virus in blood and semen found in chronically-infected patients; and (b) cases like "patient zero," the Canadian airline attendant with an impressive Rolodex of sexual partners in many cities, described in 'Randy Shilts's 1987 book, And the Band Played On. priate kind of model is called a "stochastic multi-type branching-process." The adjective "stochastic" refers to random events, as in a dice game; in computer terms, when simulating the model the program makes calls on the random number generator, abbreviated RNG (supplied with your operating system), when making updates.	./cache/cord-227268-8k9zaqsy.txt	./txt/cord-227268-8k9zaqsy.txt