Slow, Wave-Like Spread after Outbreak (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Slow, Wave-Like Spread after Outbreak

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When long-distance travel is rare, epidemics spread like a slow, rippling wave, as demonstrated by the simulation (left) and the actual historical spread of the black death during the Middle Ages.

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Simulation by Oskar Hallatschek & Daniel Fisher. Black death map courtesy of D. Sherman and J. Salisbury.

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