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Friday, September 12, 2014
Pandemic? Model shows 10,000 Ebola cases by Sept. 24th and 100s of thousands of cases in the months after that
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Alessandro Vespignani hopes that his latest work
will turn out to be wrong. In July, the physicist from Northeastern
University in Boston started modeling how the deadly Ebola virus may
spread in West Africa. Extrapolating existing trends, the number of the
sick and dying mounts rapidly from the current toll—more than 3000 cases
and 1500 deaths—to about 10,000 cases by 24 September, and hundreds of
thousands in the months after that. “The numbers are really scary,” he
says—although he stresses that the model assumes control efforts aren't
stepped up. "We all hope to see this NOT happening," Vespigani writes in
an e-mail.
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