Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems

Tracking an epidemic requires computer models. But what if those models are wrong?

Researchers at Northeastern have found that one of the basic assumptions used in disease modeling simply isn’t realistic. Now they’re looking at how epidemics travel…
- by Laura Castañón November 19, 2018
How long is an Ebola survivor contagious? One case is causing scientists to rethink the answer.

A new report shows that a Liberian woman who survived a case of Ebola in 2014 may have infected her family a year later. The…
- by Laura Castañón - contributor August 13, 2018

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