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Strategies To Rein In Disease Epidemics Need To Be Retooled For Rural
Populations, Innovations-report
 









Excerpt: Strategies to mitigate disease epidemics in cities will not be so
effective in rural areas, according to computer engineers, because in cities,
people have a lot of informal contact with one another but looser ties. Rural
residents also report being more likely to visit and interact with others during
an epidemic. A graph showing one rural resident, represented in the center, and
all of the people that person is connected with, represented by nodes radiating
from the center. An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a
disastrous scenario -- millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed
on buses and trains (�).
Source: Strategies To Rein In Disease Epidemics Need To Be Retooled For Rural
Populations[
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/strategies_rein_disease_epidemics_retooled_rural_133724.html
], Innovations-report, 2009/06/04
Contributed by Atin Das - dasatinyahoo.co.in

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