Radosavljevic, Vladan (55889665400)Vladan (55889665400)RadosavljevicRadunovic, Desanka (6507730841)Desanka (6507730841)RadunovicBelojevic, Goran (6603711924)Goran (6603711924)Belojevic2025-06-122025-06-122009https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2008.12.055https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-67649654150&doi=10.1016%2fj.mehy.2008.12.055&partnerID=40&md5=09c7da120d00bb509b1f0687e3dac402https://remedy.med.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/10550A bioterrorist attacks usually cause epidemics of panic in a targeted population. We have presented epidemiologic aspect of this phenomenon as a three-component model - host, information on an attack and social network. We have proposed a mathematical model of panic and counter-measures as the function of time in a population exposed to a bioterrorist attack. The model comprises ordinary differential equations and graphically presented combinations of the equations parameters. Clinically, we have presented a model through a sequence of psychic conditions and disorders initiated by an act of bioterrorism. This model might be helpful for an attacked community to timely and properly apply counter-measures and to minimize human mental suffering during a bioterrorist attack. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.