AUSTIN, Texas – Just as the rainy season is driving a new surge of cholera cases in Haiti, a new computational model could forecast where outbreaks are likely to occur.
Aug 11, 2011
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In what the authors believe is the first documented comparison of several real-time infectious disease forecasting models by different teams across many seasons, five research groups report this week that a majority of models ...
Jan 15, 2019
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Are influenza outbreaks and weather patterns connected? Researchers have long known that flu season occurs in the colder months, and that infection rates drop dramatically as the weather warms. But why? And could weather ...
Feb 19, 2020
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Scientists were able to reliably predict the timing of the 2012-2013 influenza season up to nine weeks in advance of its peak. The first large-scale demonstration of the flu forecasting system by scientists at Columbia University's ...
Dec 3, 2013
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Scientists can use genetic 'weather forecasting' to predict how long it will take for bowel cancer to evolve resistance to a drug before a patient has even started treatment, a new study has shown.
May 21, 2021
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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have the ability to forecast the upcoming flu season and other infectious diseases by analyzing views of Wikipedia articles. "The ability to more accurately forecast the flu season ...
May 15, 2015
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Early in the coronavirus pandemic, researchers stumbled on an unexpected finding: smokers seemed to be protected from COVID's worst effects. Initially discovered on a review of hospitalized patients in China, this "smoker's ...
Oct 4, 2021
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Despite efforts throughout the United States last spring to suppress the spread of the novel coronavirus, states across the country have experienced spikes in the past several weeks. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases ...
Jul 30, 2020
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(AP) -- Allergy season has come early and hit with a wheezing vengeance in parts of the South and Midwest this year, thanks largely to an unusually warm winter. Abundant pollen is causing watery eyes, sniffles and sneezing.
Mar 21, 2012
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We've been lucky with more rain and cooler weather this summer. My friend Terry in Arizona has not been as fortunate.
Jul 28, 2023
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