Robert Kooij

Strategies to Rein in Disease Epidemics Need to be Retooled for Rural Populations, Say Computer Engineers

An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a disastrous scenario -- millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed on buses and trains and brushing past one another on crowded sidewalks.

A group of Kansas State University engineers is finding that a truly disastrous epidemic scenario could also take place in the wide-open spaces of the Great Plains.

Computer modeling shows strategies to rein in epidemics need to be retooled for rural populations

An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a disastrous scenario -- millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed on buses and trains and brushing past one another on crowded sidewalks.