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Article: Los Alamos Licenses Avian Flu Modeling & Simulation Software.
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- October 18, 2006
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Company to Run Flu Impact Models for Government, Public, and Private Organizations
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- Santa Fe-based CIVA (The Company for Information Visualization and Analysis) signed an agreement to license Los Alamos National Laboratory's epidemiological modeling and simulation system, called EpiCast. Developed by Los Alamos scientists Tim Germann, Kai Kadau, and Catherine Macken, EpiCast was designed to help epidemiologists understand the spread and impact of an Avian Influenza (H5N1) pandemic. The system models the pandemic at the individual human level using the most current data on the natural and deliberate spread of pathogens in human populations.
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