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Modeling disease spread

ID Number
2322

Description
What looks like a Native American dream catcher is really a network of social interactions within a community. The red dots along the inner and outer circles represent people, while the different colored lines represent direct contact between them. All connections originate from four individuals near the center of the graph. Modeling social networks can help researchers understand how diseases spread.

Featured in the July 19, 2005, issue of Biomedical Beat.

Type
Illustration

Source
Stephen Eubank, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

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Stephen Eubank, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

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