Alarming new outbreak model
Aug. 20th, 2009 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masque12When a science journalist gets an email from Neil Ferguson, with the subject "An important new piece of infectious disease modelling research", one tends to take notice. Dr Ferguson, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Imperial, College, London, is one of the world's leading epidemiologists, who advises both the World Health Organisation and the UK Government on the current swine flu pandemic. Where infectious disease is concerned, he is a source of some authority.
The attached study, he said, highlighted "a problem we should wake up to -- this paper shows only the harshest control measures would give us a chance." Just what might this terrifying new threat be?
The attached study, he said, highlighted "a problem we should wake up to -- this paper shows only the harshest control measures would give us a chance." Just what might this terrifying new threat be?
