Clues on the Coronavirus Contagion
Epidemiologists are disease detectives. The investigative insights of a forensic epidemiologist are exemplified by Sherlock Holmes, whose creator, Arthur Conan...
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Spread of the New Coronavirus in the Year of the Rat
When the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was first identified as a coronavirus in 2012, the case fatality rate was very high at 35 percent; but...
- RMS / Article / 6 days ago
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New Lethal Coronavirus In China
In this the centennial year of the great 1918 pandemic, I was invited to speak at a special symposium on emerging infectious diseases at the renowned Pasteur...
- RMS / Article / 11 days ago
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Crossing the Terrorism Casualty Protection Gap
This blog was first published as an article in Insurance Day The victims of the Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, the injured and the dependents of the...
- RMS / Article / 2 months ago
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Ebola in Goma
Assessing the risks faced by the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) would go well beyond the norms of the insurance industry...
- RMS / Article / 6 months ago
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Ebola Epidemic: Confirmed Cases in Uganda
Situation It has been reported that the current Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic, which has caused over 1,300 confirmed deaths in the Democratic Republic...
- RMS / Article / 8 months ago
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Supress A Contagion Early To Avert Disaster - FT
In reference to World Bank's 'pandemic bonds' under scrutiny after failing to payout Ebola" (February 21), a pandemic bond risk analysis with a multinational trigger is a complex task...
Civil War Drives the Spread of Ebola
The worst outbreak of Ebola in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), Africa’s second largest country by area, with a population of over 77 million, has already...
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RMS: Working for the Good of the Game
On November 13, 2015, the multiple terrorist attacks on Paris began with a suicide bomb blast at the 81,000 capacity Stade de France soccer stadium...
- RMS / Article / 2 years ago
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Reimagining history: Counterfactual risk analysis
What if the wind had blown onshore when the Fukushima nuclear plant was struck by a tsunami in 2011? What if West Africa had been embroiled in civil war during 2014’s Ebola crisis?...