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.

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