Vaccination

Meet Alyssa Yu, the 17-year-old Maryland student who built a mathematical model for what happens when 2 interacting infections spread at once and how vaccination could target the resulting hot spots

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Meet Alyssa Yu, the 17-year-old Maryland student who built a mathematical model for what happens when 2 interacting infections spread at once and how vaccination could target the resulting hot spots

Alyssa Yu (Poolesville High School, Poolesville, MD) A 17-year-old student from Maryland has developed a new mathematical framework to predict how multiple infectious diseases interact and spread through connected populations at the same time. Alyssa Yu, a senior at Poolesville High School in Montgomery County, created the computer model to address a major gap in … Read more

California health scare: Potential virus outbreak rocks Sacramento residents, more than 100 children feared for infection

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Cricket in L1

sacramento, californiaHealth officials have warned that an outbreak of the virus may have occurred and that more than 100 children may have been exposed to measles in an educational enrichment program. Officials sounded the alarm last week after an unvaccinated child who was contagious enrolled in an unidentified program in Sacramento County. California health scare: … Read more