Infectious diseases, epidemiology, and social networks at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS
This week I have been in Bangkok visiting our virology colleagues at the United States Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS), with whom we are collaborating on the Flu-Barracks study. AFRIMS Virology has had a presence in Thailand since the 1960s and has a long and distinguished history of medical research, having been…
We are studying the transmission of influenza in an army barracks, using RFID tagging technology to measure high-resolution contact patterns between recruits. The transmission of influenza and other respiratory infections is influenced by social interactions and contact patterns between infectious and susceptible individuals. A number of methods have been developed to measure contacts between individuals,…