http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/cornell-info204/2008/03/13/bring-out-your-dead-epidemiology-transportation-networks-and-migration-patterns/ This is a supplemental blog for a course which will cover how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the study of networks sheds light on these connections. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:29:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/cornell-info204/2008/03/13/bring-out-your-dead-epidemiology-transportation-networks-and-migration-patterns/#comment-855 retiree Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:40:22 +0000 http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/cornell-info204/2008/03/13/bring-out-your-dead-epidemiology-transportation-networks-and-migration-patterns/#comment-855 College breaks have an interesting role in the spread of disease. A few times a year the entire population is dispersed through the transportation network to connect up with family and social contacts elsewhere. Then everyone reconvenes on campus and shares whatever contagion they managed to pick up, only to work to disperse again as possible carriers at the next break. College breaks have an interesting role in the spread of disease. A few times a year the entire population is dispersed through the transportation network to connect up with family and social contacts elsewhere. Then everyone reconvenes on campus and shares whatever contagion they managed to pick up, only to work to disperse again as possible carriers at the next break.

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