Researchers Use Game to Change How Scientists Study Disease Outbreaks

Researchers Use Game to Change How Scientists Study Disease Outbreaks

04/03/2012 05:00 PM EDT

It may seem like a game of tag, but it's an innovative tool for teaching the fundamentals of epidemiology, the science of how infectious diseases move through a population.

An international team of scientists--including researchers who teach an annual clinic at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Muizenberg, South Africa--is helping epidemiologists improve the mathematical models they use to study outbreaks of diseases like cholera, AIDS and malaria.

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