Modeling behaviors that spread disease

Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 13:40 in Biology & Nature

Whether it’s a cough or a handshake, one point of contact by an infected individual may be all it takes to spark an epidemic. The same can also be true for cultural traits related to a disease. Stanford theoretical biologists have developed a new mathematical model that investigates how a health-related behavior or idea that […]

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