Understand the Measles Outbreak with this One Weird Number | Roots of Unity, Scientific... - 0 views
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Lottie Peppers on 09 Feb 1515. That's all you need to know about the measles. OK, that's not true at all. There's no one weird trick that will give you a flat belly (besides lying face-down on something flat), and there's no one weird number that explains measles epidemiology. But the basic reproduction number, or R0, of a disease does shed some light on which diseases become epidemics and how we can keep them in check.
