We apply this model to a large urban area (9 million people) and evaluate the effect of situational awareness (early detection and response) and several response measures, such as mass vaccination, quarantine, closure, mass-transit shutdown, and voluntary self-quarantine on the spread of the epidemic and on the total number of casualties.

In the early 1980s the Warty comb jelly or Sea walnut was introduced (probably from the ballast water of ships from North America) to the Black Sea, a habitat in which it had no natural predators. By the summer of 1989 it was proliferating in such numbers and consuming so much plankton in the Black Sea that the fisheries dependent on the plankton crashed.

Sandars identifies two varieties, tanged and tangless. The blades with tangs or short “necks,” where the handles are attached with two rivets, seem to be more common in LM III Crete.

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