Strategies to Rein in Disease Epidemics Need to be Retooled for Rural Populations, Say Computer Engineers

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 10:49 in Health & Medicine

Strategies to mitigate disease epidemics in cities will not be so effective in rural areas, according to computer engineers, because in cities, people have a lot of informal contact with one another but looser ties. Rural residents also report being more likely to visit and interact with others during an epidemic.

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