Novel method predicts impact of a covert anthrax release
Friday, April 10, 2009 - 08:49
in Health & Medicine
A new statistical method that can estimate the origin and time of an aerosolised release of the pathogen causing anthrax, following detection of the first few cases has been developed by researchers from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial College London in collaboration with the Health Protection Agency's Microbial Risk Assessment group...