Hidden infections crucial to understanding, controlling disease outbreaks

Monday, September 22, 2008 - 15:07 in Health & Medicine

Scientists and news organizations typically focus on the number of dead and gravely ill during epidemics, but research at the University of Michigan suggests that less dramatic, mild infections lurking in large numbers of people are the key to understanding cycles of at least one potentially fatal infectious disease: cholera.

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