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cnbc.com - by Angelica LaVito - May 25, 2018
An Ebola outbreak is emerging in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a nonprofit that studies infectious diseases identified where it could spread based on flight patterns. . .
. . . EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit that studies outbreaks, used software to identify where Ebola could spread through infected passengers. The system used flight patterns from the airports in Mbandaka, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, those nearest to Bikoro, where the outbreak started.
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FLIRT - EcoHealth Alliance
FLIRT is a network analysis tool that enables users to examine flight networks to identify where infected travelers and contaminated goods are likely to travel to. FLIRT calculates the connectedness between airports using passenger, cargo, and network data. FLIRT predicts locations that are at risk of exposure to infected travelers and goods after an infectious disease outbreak has been detected.
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