Assessing the interplay between human mobility and mosquito borne diseases in urban environments

@article{Massaro2019AssessingTI,
  title={Assessing the interplay between human mobility and mosquito borne diseases in urban environments},
  author={Emanuele Massaro and D{\'a}niel Kondor and Carlo Ratti},
  journal={Scientific Reports},
  year={2019},
  volume={9}
}
Urbanization drives the epidemiology of infectious diseases to many threats and new challenges. In this research, we study the interplay between human mobility and dengue outbreaks in the complex urban environment of the city-state of Singapore. We integrate both stylized and mobile phone data-driven mobility patterns in an agent-based transmission model in which humans and mosquitoes are represented as agents that go through the epidemic states of dengue. We monitor with numerical simulations… 
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