Simulated influenza epidemic in Chicago with no public health interventions - Movie (504 KB) shows the spread of a simulated influenza epidemic in the Chicago area (8.8 million individuals) with no public health interventions. Click here to see more simulations and the impact that public health interventions can have on the spread of influenza through large populations.
RESEARCHERS at the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech are using computer simulations of mathematical models to investigate how infectious diseases like influenza emerge and spread through large populations of people. These simulations allow experts to test the impact of different public health interventions on the spread of infectious agents like viruses through large populations.
