MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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New model of disease contagion ranks U.S. airports in terms of their spreading influence
By EmmaZahn on Mon, 07/23/2012 - 7:55pm |....a new study by researchers in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) shifts the focus to the first few days of an epidemic, determining how likely the 40 largest U.S. airports are to influence the spread of a contagious disease originating in their home cities. This new approach could help determine appropriate measures for containing infection in specific geographic areas and aid public health officials in making decisions about the distribution of vaccinations or treatments in the earliest days of contagion.
[Bottom line: in the event of a pandemic, we're sol.]
Airports in New York, Los Angeles and Honolulu are judged likeliest to play a significant role in the growth of a pandemic.
World map shows flight routes from the 40 largest U.S. airports.
Image: Christos Nicolaides, Juanes Research Group
URL:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/spread-of-disease-in-airports-0723.html
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