If it's particularly contagious virus, it would spread across the planet in a year. 'if it starts in New York, it's going to be in London certainly within a week.' says Ira longini, a biostatistician at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research in Seattle who uses computer models to analyze how viruses globe-trot. " And from there. it will quickly travel to the rest of North America and Europe, " For longini's computer forecasts to become reality, though, certain conditions would need to be met.
First, it affects the respiratory tract, so influenza. As anyone who has suffered though a bout of flu knows, it affects the respiratory tract, so sneezing and coughing make it easy to infect anyone within a radius of 3 feed (0.9m). Second, the viruses must originate in a major city with plenty of airport traffic, to ensure official are off the trail of the real megabug, says Andrew Pekosz, a virologist and immunologist at Johns Hopkins University. The ideas seems to freak him out. "with everybody expressing similar symptoms, we'd end up chasing, chasing, but always being a few steps behind, never really able to interrupt the spread"
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