[Español] By Julio Rodríguez Stimson The tourism industry worldwide is vulnerable to emerging infectious disease outbreaks, which are often novel and unknown, and so the way in which information is transmitted through the media can have a significant impact on travel. Researchers at the University of Maine conducted a comprehensive content analysis examining news media […]
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Aedes aegypti © James Gathany
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Interviewing Elizabeth Pellecer Rivera, PhD candidate at the University of Maine.
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How Seasons and Human Mobility Shape Epidemics [Español] by Julio Rodríguez Stimson Background Zika virus, belonging to the Flaviviridae family alongside dangerous viruses like Yellow Fever, Dengue, and West Nile Virus, is mainly transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. In 2015-16, the Zika virus swept through the Caribbean and Latin America, causing over a million confirmed […]
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Welcome to our new website! View this graphical model showing the spread of Zika in Colombia Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) as a calibration method for spatially-explicit Agent-Based Models (ABMs). ABMs simulate the behavior of individual agents in a given space, and calibration involves adjusting model parameters to match real-world data. For more information, please visit […]
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