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New software to aid early detection of infectious disease outbreaks.(Research News)
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December 1, 2007
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A newly released software program will let health authorities at the site of an infectious disease outbreak quickly analyze data, speeding the detection of new cases and the implementation of effective interventions.
The program, called TranStat, was developed by a team of epidemiologists and computer scientists from the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS), an international program supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build computational models for studying disease spread.
"A main goal of MIDAS is to make the models developed by the researchers available to the public health community ...
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