Influenza A (H1N1), more commonly known as swine flu,  has recently received a great deal of media attention, much of it focused on the measures that governments and organisations are taking to contain this infectious disease from spreading.

A new review published this week in BMC Medicine by Editorial Board member Sally Blower and her colleagues at the Semel Institute Centre for Biomedical modeling, UCLA considers how mathematical modeling of influenza pandemic outbreaks can inform pandemic preparedness planning, using swine flu as the focus.

Review    
Modeling influenza epidemics and pandemics: insights into the future of swine flu (H1N1)
Brian J Coburn, Bradley G Wagner, Sally Blower
BMC Medicine 2009, 7:30 (22 June 2009)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

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