Flu reduction policies don't need to start at the beginning of an outbreak, study suggests
Friday, February 11, 2011 - 11:40
in Health & Medicine
It might be better to implement policies to reduce the impact of a flu epidemic a few weeks after the start of an outbreak rather than straight away, according to a new study that uses mathematical models to simulate the effects of different interventions. The research is published today in the online journal PLoS Computational Biology...