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Influenza pandemic could infect 43 million in UK

15-Apr-2018

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Influenza pandemic could kill almost a million people in the UK.

How people move and interact affects how a virus will actually spread.

Models designed by University of Cambridge  for citizen science project.

30,000 volunteers tracked via their phone for 24 hours.

BBC Pandemic app recorded who they came into close contact.

Data used to work out how fast a new flu epidemic might spread

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Julia Gog

David N. Moore Fellow in Mathematics, Director of Studies in Mathematics and Professor of Mathematical Biology.

University of Cambridge

Collegiate research university in Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Pandemics