Human mobility and the worldwide impact of intentional localized highly pathogenic virus release

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gonçalves, Bruno ^a   Balcan, Duygu ^b   Vespignani, Alessandro ^c,d  

^a CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^b ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; SMALLPOX; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOTERRORISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; SMALLPOX; TIME FACTORS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; TRAVEL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84880352289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00810     Document Type: Article

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