Content about “epidemiology”

In 1915 a cook in California accidentally infected 93 people with typhoid. Over 100 years on mathematicians shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding this and other outbreaks of infectious diseases.

Take part in an exciting new project and help fight future pandemics!

Take part in an exciting new project and help fight future pandemics!

A project involving secondary school students has delivered valuable data for epidemiologists.

A crowdsourced computing project looks for molecules that can disable the Ebola virus.

Why maths is an important tool in the fight against Ebola.

How maths helps us understand and fight infectious diseases.

New analysis of the 2009 swine flu pandemic in the US shows that the pandemic wave was surprisingly slow, and that its spread was probably accelerated by school-age children.

A new study suggests that Facebook is heading for a very rapid decline.

Deciding who is to blame and who should pay for the financial crisis will be a hot topic at the G8 next week. Financial mathematics received a lot of bad press in the aftermath of the crunch and many believe that it was the popularity of mathematical models – often borrowed from physics — that put the financial system at risk. But now models borrowed from biology are helping us understand how this risk might be reduced.