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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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Illustration of a man, woman and child on a red polygon with blue margin.

Epidemiologists are improving mathematical models used to study disease outbreaks.

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researchers from America and Africa getting epidemiology training at an African clinic.

Researchers from America and Africa gain training in epidemiology at an African clinic.

Credit: Steve Bellan


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four mosquitoes on a metal dish covered with netting.

Mosquitoes transmit malaria; bio-mathematics holds new insights to malaria outbreaks.

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a model of a social network.

Modeling social networks is critical to understanding transmission of infectious diseases.

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malaria parasites in blue infecting a human red blood cell.

Tiny parasites, huge problem: malaria parasites (blue) infect a human red blood cell.

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the AIDS virus.

Understanding the spread of the AIDS virus is among the researchers' goals.

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