MIT Model of How Major Airports Affect PandemicsBy Norman Chan A new study by MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering models how major airports are likely to contribute to the spread of infectious diseases during the first few days of contagion. The model "incorporates variations in travel patterns among individuals, the geographic locations of airports, the disparity in interactions among airports, and waiting times at individual airports to create a tool that could be used to predict where and how fast a disease might spread." Read the full MIT report here.