The goal of this project is to create a cloud-based predictive analytics system that tracks and forecasts COVID-19 outbreaks by utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS). Using machine learning techniques ...

Scientists sometimes compare predicting the course of epidemics to forecasting the weather. But there's a major difference—the impact of human behavior—says Alessandro Vespignani, director of ...

The seasonal challenge of disease prevention: How behavior and infection rates create repeating outbreak patterns by Michael Hesse, Max Planck Society edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan ...

Brazil's vast and diverse geography, with the Amazon to the north, mountain ranges along the Atlantic coast and the Andes to its west, may have helped it avoid the U.S. fate of widespread bird flu ...

This evaluation focuses on the preparedness of the World Bank Group, including the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), to support epidemic- and pandemic-related health ...

Medlife Crisis breaks down how pharmaceutical marketing, shifting definitions, and unnecessary screening have fueled a modern epidemic: fake diseases.

Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Pandemic provide plausible upper bounds for outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 48 countries imply flu-related ...

A fast-spreading cholera outbreak has hit Sudan with officials reporting more than 1,000 cases a day in the capital of the war-torn country. The outbreak is centered around the capital, Khartoum ...