Tags for studying the spread of epidemics
Friday, July 22, 2011 - 22:30
in Biology & Nature
Participants in a congress were asked to wear a tag for two days in order to study their movements and interactions within a population. The data, collected by a French-Italian team, makes it possible to envisage the simulation of the spread of infection risks within a population, or even the optimization of the response to the expansion of an epidemic.