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The flu fighters
Feb 2, 2010
Quick and easy global air travel aids the spread of infectious diseases like the current H1N1 flu pandemic, and makes modelling them a complicated task. But as Vittoria Colliza
and Alessandro Vespignani
explain, physicists and computer scientists are at the forefront of such studies, using tools developed
from fields such as statistical mechanics and complex networks
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