USATODAY.com - Scientists use website to predict disease: "Scientists use website to predict disease
By Alicia Chang, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Scientists think they may have found a better way to predict how diseases like a global flu epidemic could spread: Follow the money.
Using the popular 'Where's George?' website that tracks U.S. dollars, researchers developed a mathematical tool that could help chart the path of an infectious disease.
'We are optimistic that this will drastically improve predictions about the geographical spread of epidemics,' said Theo Geisel of the Max Planck Institute in Germany, which developed the tool along with the University of California, Santa Barbar"
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