Friday, January 27, 2006

Money talks... Infectious Pandemics Walk?

Thanks to Aetiology for pointing out this article (Nature sub. required) about developing a mathematical model for the spread of disease based on the circulation of money. Using Where's George. From MSNBC:

Money, like diseases, is carried by people around the world, so what better way to plot the spread of a potential influenza pandemic than to track the circulation of dollar bills, researchers reasoned.

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