Topic: Neil Ferguson

Allen & Delancey

Shooting star Ryan Skeen changes restaurants as fast he stockpiles raves. While his food racked up further accolades at Irving Mill-Skeen's next, much larger locale-he lasted barely five minutes there. This summer, the peripatetic young whiz popped up downtown at Allen ...
Researchers in Canada have concluded that the only intervention likely to be successful in the case of a zombie attack is to " (yes, the question mark is part of his name) and teams from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, who ...

Closing schools won't stop pandemics: study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Closing schools at the first sign of a new pandemic might delay the worst so health officials can prepare, but cannot prevent the spread of the disease, British researchers said on Monday.And while closing schools might spread out demands ...
I know, I know. It was fun while it lasted, but you sent H1N1 your breakup mix tape, gave it back the underwear it left in your apartment, and now you've started a new relationship happily reading about the new BMW ...
Report says more swine flu cases than reported, rapid spread justified warningsThe number of cases of swine flu may have been several times higher than reported and the potential for rapid spread of the illness justified the World Health Organization's decision ...
Report says more swine flu cases than reported, rapid spread justified warningsA new study concludes the swine flu's potential to spread justified the World Health Organization's decision to raise the global pandemic alert.While WHO is reporting about 4,700 ...
Martin Bootsma of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London studied data from 16 US cities that used various measures to keep people apart, including closing schools and churches. Some cities started too late, others lifted the ...
One of the world's most powerful pandemic models has reached a stark conclusion: only combining a pre-pandemic vaccine with larger stocks of antiviral drugs than currently planned would really prevent mass disease. Neil Ferguson and colleagues at Imperial College in London ...
A simulator showing how outbreaks of avian flu or SARS might spread around the world would be a great help in the struggle to contain such diseases. Such is the vision of researchers at the World Health Organization, who last week said ...

Computing, natural sciences to merge

If scientists are to make progress understanding complex phenomena ranging from tracking avian flu to predicting climate change, computer science will need equal standing alongside the natural sciences such as biology, according to a new report released Wednesday.. "2020 Science" was authored ...