Strategies to Rein in Disease Epidemics Need to be Retooled for Rural Populations, Say Computer Engineers
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 12:35
in Biology & Nature
An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a disastrous scenario -- millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed on buses and trains and brushing past one another on crowded sidewalks. A group of Kansas State University engineers is finding that a truly disastrous epidemic scenario could also take place in the wide-open spaces of the Great Plains.