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News Release 12-068
Researchers Use Game to Change How Scientists Study Disease Outbreaks
Develop innovative tool for tracking how infectious diseases move through a population
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Epidemiologists are improving mathematical models used to study disease outbreaks.
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Researchers from America and Africa gain training in epidemiology at an African clinic.
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Mosquitoes transmit malaria; bio-mathematics holds new insights to malaria outbreaks.
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Modeling social networks is critical to understanding transmission of infectious diseases.
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Tiny parasites, huge problem: malaria parasites (blue) infect a human red blood cell.
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Understanding the spread of the AIDS virus is among the researchers' goals.
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