A team of researchers at McMaster, Simon Fraser University and several other Canadian universities has received $2.5-million in federal funding to establish a national network to track the spread of infectious disease.
The analysis provides new and rare insights into the ecology of infectious disease, establishing that the time between epidemics, the size of the outbreaks, and even the season when the epidemics occurred changed over the centuries.
McMaster researchers who analyzed thousands of documents covering a 300-year span of plague outbreaks in London, England, have estimated that the disease spread four times faster in the 17th century than it had in the 14th century.
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