posted on 2020-07-30, 12:41authored byRobin N. Thompson, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, Valerie Isham, Daniel Arribas-Bel, Ben Ashby, Tom Britton, Peter Challenor, Lauren H. K. Chappell, Hannah Clapham, Nik J. Cunniffe, A. Philip Dawid, Christl A. Donnelly, Rosalind M. Eggo, Sebastian Funk, Nigel Gilbert, Julia R. Gog, Paul Glendinning, William S. Hart, Hans Heesterbeek, Thomas House, Matt Keeling, István Z. Kiss, Mirjam E. Kretzschmar, Alun L. Lloyd, Emma S. McBryde, James M. McCaw, Joel C. Miller, Trevelyan J. McKinley, Martina Morris, Philip D. O'Neill, Carl A. B. Pearson, Kris V. Parag, Lorenzo Pellis, Juliet R. C. Pulliam, Joshua V. Ross, Michael J. Tildesley, Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Bernard W. Silverman, Claudio J. Struchiner, Pieter Trapman, Cerian R. Webb, Denis Mollison, Olivier Restif
Examples of six previous and ongoing epidemics, demonstrating the potential for a long 'tail' of cases before eradication. These long tails can occur even when an effective vaccine has been developed.