Outbreak science: Infectious disease research leads to outbreak predictions
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 13:42
in Health & Medicine
Infectious diseases have a substantially growing impact on the health of communities around the world and pressure to both predict and prevent such diseases is ever-growing. LSU Assistant Professor of Biological Science Tad Dallas and colleagues developed a simple approach to accurately predict disease outbreaks by combining novel statistical techniques and a large dataset on pathogen biogeography.