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A new approach for responding to and managing disease outbreaks -- such as foot-and-mouth disease, measles, and viruses -- is being proposed by a team of epidemiologists led by two Penn State University researchers. The team's flexible approach could save many lives and millions of dollars. The approach, called 'adaptive management,' allows decision-makers to use knowledge they gain during an outbreak to update ongoing interventions with the goal of containing outbreaks more quickly and efficiently. Current efforts to prevent or stem such outbreaks may fall short because of uncertainty and limited information about the real-time dynamics of the specific disease outbreak. The researchers' scientific paper describing this adaptive management approach is published in the Oct. 21, 2014 issue of the open-access journal PLOS Biology. This image shows a group of cows -- a species that is susceptible to the contagious foot-and-mouth disease.
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