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At The Epidemic’s Epicenter: A Liberian child sits in an Ebola isolation ward housing people who might have contracted the contagious disease. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
Did real-time epidemic modeling save lives in West Africa?
spectrum.ieee.org - by David Brown - May 28, 2015
. . . “agent-based” models will give a more nuanced picture of how pathogens affect and sicken a population. “This is the wave of the future,” says Stephen Eubank, deputy director of the Virginia Tech lab. “It’s going to take a concerted effort to gather the data and the expertise. But it’s going to happen.”
And so, too, will another Ebola outbreak.
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