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SUBMITTER: Zachreson C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6291314 | biostudies-other | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Zachreson Cameron C Fair Kristopher M KM Cliff Oliver M OM Harding Nathan N Piraveenan Mahendra M Prokopenko Mikhail M
Science advances 20181212 12
We examine salient trends of influenza pandemics in Australia, a rapidly urbanizing nation. To do so, we implement state-of-the-art influenza transmission and progression models within a large-scale stochastic computer simulation, generated using comprehensive Australian census datasets from 2006, 2011, and 2016. Our results offer a simulation-based investigation of a population's sensitivity to pandemics across multiple historical time points and highlight three notable trends in pandemic patte ...[more]