Sentences with phrase «predict disease outbreaks»

The team is currently developing computer models that can predict disease outbreaks in both Latin America and Bangladesh, Colwell says.

It's also a far - reaching and revealing digital «petri dish» to study human behavior that may help predict disease outbreaks, like HIV, and inform public health efforts, as several studies and social media experts have shown over the last few years.

Not exact matches

«Our research shows that focusing surveillance on viruses in bats, rodents and non-human primates (a «SMART surveillance approach), and understanding what's disrupting these species» ecology is the best strategy to predict and prevent local outbreaks and pandemic disease,» Daszak continued.

Analyzing trends on Twitter and Google can help predict vaccine scares that can lead to disease outbreaks, according to a study from the University of Waterloo.

Their mathematical model also predicted how the Disneyland outbreak helped push California back from the tipping point by making parents more afraid of the disease than the vaccine.

They're creating powerful new software that can predict, simulate and analyze a major disease outbreak — all in the form of an intuitive, multiplayer game.

Although the Boston Children's team has previously demonstrated that social media can be used to track disease, this is the first time that they've shown that outbreaks can be predicted through an integrated wearable device and online tool.

Climate change is accelerating the spread of disease — and making it much harder to predict outbreaks

First, they tried to see if they could predict outbreaks of contagious disease.

An improvement on the famous Markowitz theorem may have the potential to not only more accurately predict the next financial crises, but also the outbreak of pests and diseases, or whether a patient will have a heart attack in two hours or not.

Ultimately, the study contributes to our understanding of the complexity inherent to disease transmission and highlights the importance of changes in behaviour of sick animals for predicting the outcome of outbreaks.

Potential outbreaks of diseases such as Ebola and Lassa fever may be more accurately predicted thanks to a new mathematical model developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

Oversharing on social media may be annoying, but it could predict the next outbreak of sexually transmitted disease.

Even though using social media to predict sexually transmitted disease will never be perfect, if the analysis is carefully carried out it «can provide a lot of information,» says Alessandro Vespignani at Northeastern University, Boston, who was one of the authors of a prominent paper on Google Flu Trends, which used a similar method in an attempt to predict flu outbreaks.

Wolfe has devoted his life to fighting worldwide disease pandemics with an early - warning system that predicts and controls disease outbreaks before they kill millions.

The number of schoolchildren not vaccinated against childhood diseases in Texas is growing rapidly, which means that the state may see its first measles outbreaks in the winter or spring of 2018, Hotez predicted in a recent article in PLOS Medicine.

The work supports the Laboratory's Global Security mission area and the Information, Science, and Technology science pillar through the capability to predict and detect infectious disease outbreaks.

«Clarifying how disease outbreaks subside will help us predict, and respond to, other emerging pathogens in plants, wildlife — and in humans,» Voyles said.

«Our goal is to develop maps that can simulate the abundance of this dengue virus carrier in a particular area, and then use these insights along with demographic and economic data, to predict where disease outbreaks are most likely to occur,» he said.

In a recent press release, The National Science Foundation said, «From understanding climate change to predicting infectious disease outbreaks to engineering solutions to address disability, scientific research is increasingly crossing the boundaries between disciplines.»

In the Greater Horn of Africa, an area comprising parts of ten countries, new climate models are showing accuracy in predicting outbreaks of the cattle disease Rift Valley Fever.